PHYSICIST

Marcel Brillouin

1854 - 1948

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Louis Marcel Brillouin (French pronunciation: [lwi maʁsɛl bʁijwɛ̃]; 19 December 1854 – 16 June 1948) was a French physicist and mathematician. Born in Saint-Martin-lès-Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France, his father was a painter who moved to Paris when Marcel was a boy. There he attended the Lycée Condorcet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Brillouin has received more than 37,229 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Brillouin is the 607th most popular physicist, the 4,131st most popular biography from France and the 67th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marcel Brillouin ranks 607 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Kleiner, Robert H. Dicke, Henry Augustus Rowland, Wilhelm Hisinger, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, and Robert Mills. After him are Burkhard Heim, Bert Bolin, James Hansen, John D. Barrow, Harry Daghlian, and Harold Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Marcel Brillouin ranks 92. Before him are Takamine Jōkichi, Théodore Flournoy, Ruth Belville, Georges Eekhoud, Robert Borden, and Adela Zamudio. After him are Hans Jæger, Alexandru Marghiloman, Hermann von Stein, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, and Gerhard Louis De Geer. Among people deceased in 1948, Marcel Brillouin ranks 140. Before him are Jāzeps Vītols, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, Mickey Marcus, Ernst Herzfeld, Wesley Clair Mitchell, and Alfredo Baldomir. After him are Yevgeniy Abalakov, Abraham Brill, Alfred Lacroix, Gregg Toland, May Whitty, and Julius Curtius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Brillouin ranks 4,131 out of 6,770. Before him are Joséphine Fodor (1789), Victor Bérard (1864), Cerrone (1952), André Darrigade (1929), Bertrand Cantat (1964), and Isaac Oliver (1556). After him are Patrick Gaillard (1952), Joseph Avenol (1879), Olivier de Serres (1539), Danièle Delorme (1926), Tristan Murail (1947), and Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Marcel Brillouin ranks 67. Before him are Pierre Weiss (1865), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Jean Becquerel (1878), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), and Prosper-René Blondlot (1849). After him are Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Thibault Damour (1951), Yvette Cauchois (1908), Hubert Curien (1924), and Jacques Friedel (1921).

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