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PHYSICIST

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 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

Among physicists, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 300 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 14Before 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 6Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 1,495 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 29Before 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).