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Paul-Jacques Curie

1855 - 1941

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Jacques Curie (29 October 1855 – 19 February 1941) was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul-Jacques Curie has received more than 35,325 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Paul-Jacques Curie is the 310th most popular physicist (down from 299th in 2019), the 1,425th most popular biography from France (up from 1,488th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 310 out of 851. Before him are Giorgio Parisi, Jack Steinberger, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, David Gross, and Ratko Janev. After him are Moshé Feldenkrais, James Jeans, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John Robert Schrieffer, Jan Ingenhousz, and Ludwig Prandtl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 15. Before him are Ernest Chausson, Percival Lowell, Paul Deschanel, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Ned Kelly, and Robert Koldewey. After him are Živojin Mišić, Arthur Nikisch, Inukai Tsuyoshi, Robert de Montesquiou, Georges Rodenbach, and Narayana Guru. Among people deceased in 1941, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 47. Before him are Gottfried Feder, Frederick Griffith, Annie Jump Cannon, Dmitry Pavlov, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Rudolf Hilferding. After him are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Franz Gürtner, Ernst Lindemann, Maria Spiridonova, Edwin S. Porter, and Gaetano Mosca.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 1,425 out of 6,770. Before him are Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894), Benedict of Aniane (750), Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1724), Armand Peugeot (1849), Pierre Cambronne (1770), and Roland Topor (1938). After him are La Voisin (1640), Lucas (null), James Tissot (1836), Marie de Rohan (1600), Pierre Puget (1620), and Jacques Paul Migne (1800).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 32. Before him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), and Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927). After him are Henri Pitot (1695), Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), and Jean-Charles de Borda (1733).

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