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Léon Foucault

1819 - 1868

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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

Among physicists, Léon Foucault ranks 37 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Léon Foucault ranks 6Before 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 2Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Foucault ranks 204 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Léon Foucault ranks 7Before 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).