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Paul Langevin

1872 - 1946

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Paul Langevin (; French: [pɔl lɑ̃ʒvɛ̃]; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created after the 6 February 1934 far right riots. Being a public opponent of fascism in the 1930s resulted in his arrest and being held under house arrest by the Vichy government for most of World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Langevin has received more than 633,702 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Paul Langevin is the 117th most popular physicist (down from 90th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from France (down from 422nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Physicist.

Paul Langevin is most famous for his work in the field of quantum mechanics. He was one of the first people to propose a solution to the wave-particle duality paradox, which is the idea that light can behave as both a particle and a wave.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Langevin ranks 117 out of 851. Before him are Hippolyte Fizeau, Peter Debye, Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph Henry, Walter Houser Brattain, and Arnold Sommerfeld. After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, K. Alex Müller, James Franck, Isamu Akasaki, Javier Solana, and Isidor Isaac Rabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Paul Langevin ranks 10. Before him are Haakon VII of Norway, Alexandra Kollontai, Alexandra Feodorovna, Calvin Coolidge, Johan Huizinga, and Charles Greeley Abbot. After him are Marcel Mauss, Anton Denikin, Emil Hácha, Richard Willstätter, Léon Blum, and Sergei Diaghilev. Among people deceased in 1946, Paul Langevin ranks 24. Before him are Julius Streicher, Karl Haushofer, Fritz Sauckel, John Logie Baird, Draža Mihailović, and Manuel de Falla. After him are Ferenc Szálasi, Ananda Mahidol, Gilbert N. Lewis, Helene Schjerfbeck, Andrey Vlasov, and László Moholy-Nagy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Langevin ranks 504 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), André Citroën (1878), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550). After him are Aristide Briand (1862), William of Rubruck (1220), Carlos Gardel (1890), Elisa Bonaparte (1777), Arthur Honegger (1892), and Hector Malot (1830).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Paul Langevin ranks 16. Before him are Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819). After him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), and Alain Aspect (1947).

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