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Pierre Berthier

1782 - 1861

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Pierre Berthier (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ bɛʁtje]; 3 July 1782, Nemours, Seine-et-Marne – 24 August 1861) was a French geologist and mining engineer. Pierre Berthier was born in Nemours. After studying at the École Polytechnique, he went to the École des Mines, where he became chief of the laboratory in 1816. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Berthier has received more than 43,118 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Pierre Berthier is the 138th most popular engineer (down from 125th in 2019), the 2,647th most popular biography from France (down from 2,359th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre Berthier ranks 138 out of 389. Before him are Aurel Vlaicu, Flaminio Bertoni, J. Walter Christie, Patrick Head, Johan August Brinell, and Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov. After him are Gustave Whitehead, Pierre-Émile Martin, Gabriel Voisin, Franz Reuleaux, Li Kui, and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Pierre Berthier ranks 22. Before him are John C. Calhoun, Marcellin Marbot, Eugène de Mazenod, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, and Faustin Soulouque. After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Robert Morrison, Princess Marie of Baden, Wilhelm von Biela, Conrad Graf, and Esaias Tegnér. Among people deceased in 1861, Pierre Berthier ranks 31. Before him are Henry Gray, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Eugène de Mazenod, and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. After him are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joachim Lelewel, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Karol Lipiński, John Stevens Henslow, and Albert Niemann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Berthier ranks 2,647 out of 6,770. Before him are François Joseph Westermann (1751), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), André Cayatte (1909), Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse (1639), Paul Ramadier (1888), and Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846). After him are Charles Renouvier (1815), Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1722), Jean Françaix (1912), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Émile Augier (1820), and André Frossard (1915).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre Berthier ranks 16. Before him are Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), Henry Darcy (1803), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Alexandre Darracq (1855), and Georges Leclanché (1836). After him are Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Gérard Larrousse (1940), and Philippe LeBon (1767).

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