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Nicéphore Niépce

1765 - 1833

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825 (see View from the Window at Le Gras). In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicéphore Niépce has received more than 1,207,199 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Nicéphore Niépce is the 19th most popular inventor (down from 18th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from France (down from 180th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Inventor.

Nicéphore Niépce is most famous for his invention of photography in 1826.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 19 out of 354Before him are Samuel Morse, Rudolf Diesel, Nikolaus Otto, George Stephenson, Cai Lun, and Louis Daguerre. After him are John Logie Baird, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Samuel Colt, Charles K. Kao, Thomas Newcomen, and Antonio Meucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 2Before him is Pope Gregory XVI. After him are William IV of the United Kingdom, Robert Fulton, Pyotr Bagration, Jacques MacDonald, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Karl Ludwig Harding, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Paolo Ruffini, and José María Morelos. Among people deceased in 1833, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 1After him are Kaspar Hauser, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Richard Trevithick, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Seraphim of Sarov, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, William Wilberforce, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 206 out of 6,011Before him are Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), François Truffaut (1932), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Henri Rousseau (1844), Léon Foucault (1819), and Richard II of England (1367). After him are Georges Méliès (1861), Charles IV of France (1294), Saint Roch (1295), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), and Gustave Doré (1832).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 4Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Rudolf Diesel (1858), and Louis Daguerre (1787). After him are Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Nicolas Appert (1749), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769).