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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 30,119 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Paul-Jacques Curie is the 299th most popular physicist (up from 314th in 2019), the 1,493rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,655th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 299 out of 717Before him are Fritjof Capra, Walter Kohn, William Daniel Phillips, Yuri Oganessian, Freeman Dyson, and Valentin Ceaușescu. After him are Pierre Louis Dulong, Peter Mansfield, William Whewell, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Friedrich Hund, and Kenneth G. Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 17Before him are Paul Deschanel, Ned Kelly, Robert de Montesquiou, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Arthur Nikisch, and Robert Koldewey. After him are Georges Rodenbach, Axel Paulsen, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Živojin Mišić, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Anatoly Lyadov. Among people deceased in 1941, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 47Before him are Mikhail Kirponos, Pál Teleki, Sisowath Monivong, Ernst Lindemann, Rudolf Hilferding, and Ludwig Quidde. After him are Gaetano Mosca, Tullio Levi-Civita, Hans Driesch, Lou Gehrig, Edwin S. Porter, and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 1,493 out of 6,011Before him are William of Champeaux (1070), Julien Duvivier (1896), Balthasar Gérard (1557), Émile Gaboriau (1832), Émile Waldteufel (1837), and Alexandre de Rhodes (1591). After him are Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Roland Topor (1938), William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), and John of Matha (1150).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Paul-Jacques Curie ranks 28Before him are Louis Néel (1904), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Gérard Mourou (1944), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), and Antoine César Becquerel (1788). After him are Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), and Gaston Planté (1834).