1819 - 1868
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁnaʁ leɔ̃ fuko]; 18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Foucault has received more than 395,959 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Foucault is the 37th most popular physicist (up from 41st in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from France (up from 230th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Physicist.
Léon Foucault is most famous for his pendulum experiment. He used a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.
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Among physicists, Léon Foucault ranks 37 out of 717. Before him are Henry Cavendish, Gustav Kirchhoff, Louis de Broglie, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, William Gilbert, and Paul Dirac. After him are Lise Meitner, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, and Ernst Mach.
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 31
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 32
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 33
1686 - 1736
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 34
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 35
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 36
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 37
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 38
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 39
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 40
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 41
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 42
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 43
Among people born in 1819, Léon Foucault ranks 6. Before him are Queen Victoria, Gustave Courbet, Jacques Offenbach, Albert, Prince Consort, and Clara Schumann. After him are Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and George Eliot. Among people deceased in 1868, Léon Foucault ranks 2. Before him is Gioachino Rossini. After him are James Buchanan, August Ferdinand Möbius, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Mongkut, William T. G. Morton, August Schleicher, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, David Brewster, Mihailo Obrenović, and James Brooke.
1819 - 1901
HPI: 85.80
Rank: 1
1819 - 1877
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 2
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 3
1819 - 1861
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 4
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 5
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1819 - 1891
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 7
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 8
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 9
1819 - 1850
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 10
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 11
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 12
1792 - 1868
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 1
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 2
1791 - 1868
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 3
1790 - 1868
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 4
1786 - 1868
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 5
1804 - 1868
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 7
1821 - 1868
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 8
1810 - 1868
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 9
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 10
1823 - 1868
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 11
1803 - 1868
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Léon Foucault ranks 204 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques de Molay (1243), Pope Clement VI (1291), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), François Truffaut (1932), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), and Henri Rousseau (1844). After him are Richard II of England (1367), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Méliès (1861), Charles IV of France (1294), Saint Roch (1295), and Pope Innocent VI (1282).
1243 - 1314
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 198
1291 - 1352
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 199
1113 - 1151
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 200
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 201
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 202
1844 - 1910
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 203
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 204
1367 - 1400
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 205
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 206
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 207
1294 - 1328
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 208
1295 - 1327
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 209
1282 - 1362
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 210
Among physicists born in France, Léon Foucault ranks 7. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), and Louis de Broglie (1892). After him are Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), and Alfred Kastler (1902).
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 1
1775 - 1836
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 2
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 3
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 4
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13