1785 - 1838
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 61,029 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Pierre Louis Dulong is the 300th most popular physicist (down from 271st in 2019), the 1,495th most popular biography from France (down from 1,294th in 2019) and the 29th 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, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 300 out of 717. Before him are Walter Kohn, William Daniel Phillips, Yuri Oganessian, Freeman Dyson, Valentin Ceaușescu, and Paul-Jacques Curie. After him are Peter Mansfield, William Whewell, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Friedrich Hund, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Edmond Becquerel.
1923 - 2016
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 294
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 295
1933 - Present
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 296
1923 - 2020
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 297
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 298
1855 - 1941
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 299
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 300
1933 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 301
1794 - 1866
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 302
1927 - Present
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 303
1896 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 304
1936 - 2013
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 305
1820 - 1891
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 306
Among people born in 1785, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 14. Before him are Claude-Louis Navier, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Thomas De Quincey, John James Audubon, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Diponegoro, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Prince Paul of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1838, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 6. Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Adelbert von Chamisso, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, and Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony. After him are Ivan Kotliarevsky, Johanna Schopenhauer, Ferdinand Ries, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Bernard Courtois, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel.
1785 - 1836
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 8
1785 - 1856
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 9
1785 - 1859
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 10
1785 - 1851
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 11
1785 - 1831
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 12
1785 - 1851
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 13
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 14
1785 - 1845
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 15
1785 - 1831
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 16
1785 - 1855
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 17
1785 - 1846
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 18
1785 - 1828
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 19
1785 - 1852
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 20
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 1
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 2
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 3
1774 - 1838
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 4
1759 - 1838
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 5
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 6
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 7
1766 - 1838
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 8
1784 - 1838
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 9
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 10
1777 - 1838
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 11
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 1,495 out of 6,011. Before him are Balthasar Gérard (1557), Émile Gaboriau (1832), Émile Waldteufel (1837), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), and Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326). After him are Roland Topor (1938), William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), John of Matha (1150), Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), and Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (1489).
1557 - 1584
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 1,489
1832 - 1873
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 1,490
1837 - 1915
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,491
1591 - 1660
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,492
1855 - 1941
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,493
1326 - 1360
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,494
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 1,495
1938 - 1997
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 1,496
875 - 918
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 1,497
1 - 62
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 1,498
1150 - 1213
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 1,499
1160 - 1220
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 1,500
1489 - 1544
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 1,501
Among physicists born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 29. Before him are Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Gérard Mourou (1944), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Paul-Jacques Curie (1855). After him are Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Gaston Planté (1834), and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785).
1785 - 1836
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 23
1932 - 2007
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 24
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 25
1754 - 1785
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 26
1788 - 1878
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 27
1855 - 1941
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 28
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 29
1927 - Present
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 30
1820 - 1891
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 31
1733 - 1799
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 32
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 33
1834 - 1889
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 34
1785 - 1845
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 35