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Pierre Louis Dulong

1785 - 1838

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Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE (; French: [dylɔ̃]; 12 February 1785 – 19 July 1838) was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries for his studies into the elasticity of steam, conduction of heat, and specific heats of gases. He worked most extensively on the specific heat capacity and the expansion and refractive indices of gases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Louis Dulong has received more than 64,767 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Pierre Louis Dulong is the 331st most popular physicist (down from 300th in 2019), the 1,670th most popular biography from France (down from 1,490th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Physicist.

Pierre Louis Dulong is most famous for his work in thermodynamics and for being the first person to identify the Dulong-Petit law.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 331 out of 851. Before him are Bruno Pontecorvo, John B. Goodenough, Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, and Joseph Swan. After him are Ami Argand, Donna Strickland, Otto Schmidt, Frank Wilczek, Ferenc Krausz, and Frank Oppenheimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 11. Before him are Alessandro Manzoni, Bettina von Arnim, Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are John James Audubon, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Diponegoro. Among people deceased in 1838, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 9. Before him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Johanna Schopenhauer, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Bernard Courtois, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony. After him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Ferdinand Ries, Bernhard Crusell, Hussein Dey, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and René Caillié.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 1,670 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Feydeau (1862), Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1604), Margaret of France, Queen of England (1282), Sacha Distel (1933), Charles-François Lebrun (1739), and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806). After him are Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Régis Debray (1940), Auguste Charlois (1864), Christian de Castries (1902), Recceswinth (620), and Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (1692).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 35. Before him are Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Henri Pitot (1695), and Félix Savart (1791). After him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), and Gaston Planté (1834).

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