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Pierre Weiss

1865 - 1940

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Pierre-Ernest Weiss (25 March 1865, Mulhouse – 24 October 1940, Lyon) was a French physicist who specialized in magnetism. He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Weiss has received more than 54,536 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pierre Weiss is the 559th most popular physicist (down from 489th in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from France (down from 3,200th in 2019) and the 61st most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Weiss ranks 559 out of 851. Before him are Albert Betz, Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, John G. Trump, Paul Davies, and Joseph Larmor. After him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, Emil Warburg, Woldemar Voigt, and Kenneth Bainbridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Pierre Weiss ranks 114. Before him are Jehanne D'Alcy, Robert W. Chambers, Mahmud Tarzi, Albert Aurier, Karl Blossfeldt, and Uchida Kōsai. After him are Jacques Mieses, Kristjan Raud, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Pekka Halonen, Arie de Jong, and Josef Fischer. Among people deceased in 1940, Pierre Weiss ranks 117. Before him are Tom Mix, Fanny Brate, Flora Finch, Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, Raymond Smith Dugan, and Helmut Wick. After him are Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Smedley Butler, Ljubomir Davidović, Charley Chase, Ameen Rihani, and Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Weiss ranks 3,795 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Richard (1921), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Daniel Bensaïd (1946), Gaston Tissandier (1843), and Jean Decoux (1884). After him are Jacques Dupont (1928), Maurice Godelier (1934), Michèle Arnaud (1919), Marcel Balsa (1909), Antonin Mercié (1845), and Jean-François Rewbell (1747).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Weiss ranks 61. Before him are Gaspard de Prony (1755), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jacques Babinet (1794), Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), and Alfred Perot (1863). After him are Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Jean Becquerel (1878), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), and Marcel Brillouin (1854).

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