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Philippe LeBon

1767 - 1804

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Philippe le Bon (or Lebon) (D'Humbersin) (May 29, 1767 – December 1, 1804) was a French engineer, born in Brachay, France. There is much confusion about his life and accomplishments. His main contributions were improvements to steam engines and industrializing the extraction of lighting gas from wood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe LeBon has received more than 14,670 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Philippe LeBon is the 143rd most popular engineer (down from 128th in 2019), the 2,640th most popular biography from France (down from 2,299th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Philippe LeBon ranks 143 out of 323. Before him are J. Walter Christie, Alexey Sudayev, Georgy Shpagin, Eugene Stoner, Alexei Tupolev, and Mikhail Yangel. After him are Riccardo Morandi, Gabriel Voisin, Li Kui, Kerim Kerimov, Jorge Chávez, and Mstislav Keldysh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Philippe LeBon ranks 29. Before him are Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Platon Zubov, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, John Adams, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, and Anders Gustaf Ekeberg. After him are Alexis Bouvard, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Black Hawk, Jacques Laffitte, and Tyagaraja. Among people deceased in 1804, Philippe LeBon ranks 20. Before him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Antoine Baumé, 8th Dalai Lama, Johann Adam Hiller, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie. After him are Martin Vahl, Georges Cadoudal, Antonio José Cavanilles, Carlo Allioni, Paul Kray, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Philippe LeBon ranks 2,640 out of 6,011. Before him are Fabre d'Églantine (1750), Albert Kahn (1860), Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy (1386), Joan, Countess of Toulouse (1220), Paul Émile Appell (1855), and Hervé Renard (1968). After him are Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (1746), Boniface, Count of Savoy (1244), Alan Stivell (1944), Charles Plumier (1646), Pierre Vernier (1580), and Octave Lapize (1887).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Philippe LeBon ranks 16. Before him are Henri Farman (1874), Henry Darcy (1803), André Courrèges (1923), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Alexandre Darracq (1855), and Pierre Berthier (1782). After him are Gabriel Voisin (1880), Jorge Chávez (1887), Georges Leclanché (1836), Marc Seguin (1786), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), and Gérard Larrousse (1940).

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