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Léon Brillouin

1889 - 1969

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Léon Nicolas Brillouin (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ nikɔla bʁijwɛ̃]; August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Brillouin has received more than 135,409 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Brillouin is the 350th most popular physicist (down from 323rd in 2019), the 1,968th most popular biography from France (down from 1,723rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Léon Brillouin ranks 350 out of 717. Before him are Donna Strickland, Edward Witten, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, and George Johnstone Stoney. After him are Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, and Walter H. Schottky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Léon Brillouin ranks 72. Before him are Efim Bogoljubov, Rezső Seress, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, R. G. Collingwood, and Pierre Reverdy. After him are Pavel Dybenko, Frans Masereel, Philippe Thys, John B. Kelly Sr., Erhard Raus, and Kenwa Mabuni. Among people deceased in 1969, Léon Brillouin ranks 66. Before him are Markian Popov, Grażyna Bacewicz, Jiří Trnka, Radivoj Korać, Claude Dornier, and Artur da Costa e Silva. After him are Lucien Bianchi, Ramón Grau, Vesto Slipher, Kimon Georgiev, Meher Baba, and Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Brillouin ranks 1,968 out of 6,011. Before him are François Furet (1927), Pierre Plantard (1920), Henri Duparc (1848), Catherine Spaak (1945), Pierre Reverdy (1889), and Louis-Michel van Loo (1707). After him are Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922), Henri Grégoire (1750), Guy de Rothschild (1909), Pierre Belon (1517), and Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Léon Brillouin ranks 40. Before him are Gaston Planté (1834), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Félix Savart (1791), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), and Henri Pitot (1695). After him are Maurice de Broglie (1875), Henri Tresca (1814), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Louis Poinsot (1777), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), and Auguste Bravais (1811).

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