1865 - 1940
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 49,880 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Weiss is the 489th most popular physicist (down from 456th in 2019), the 3,213th most popular biography from France (down from 2,828th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Physicist.
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Among physicists, Pierre Weiss ranks 489 out of 717. Before him are Ernest Marsden, Jayant Narlikar, Edoardo Amaldi, Boris Podolsky, Richard C. Tolman, and Dennis W. Sciama. After him are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Jakob II Bernoulli, Heinz von Foerster, Gunnar Nordström, Vikram Sarabhai, and Michael Green.
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 483
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 484
1908 - 1989
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 485
1896 - 1966
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 486
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 487
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 488
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 489
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 490
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 491
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 492
1881 - 1923
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 493
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 494
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 495
Among people born in 1865, Pierre Weiss ranks 101. Before him are Édouard Chavannes, Lubor Niederle, Emma Orczy, Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Erich von Drygalski, and Henri Lebasque. After him are Cândido Rondon, May Whitty, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Winnaretta Singer, Bernard Berenson, and Eduard Vilde. Among people deceased in 1940, Pierre Weiss ranks 96. Before him are Ivane Javakhishvili, Yevhen Petrushevych, Giuseppe Motta, Wilhelm Stekel, Walter Hasenclever, and Helmut Wick. After him are Gunnar Höckert, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Wehib Pasha, Mikhail Koshkin, Janusz Kusociński, and Ernst Weiss.
1865 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 95
1865 - 1944
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 96
1865 - 1947
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 97
1865 - 1945
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 98
1865 - 1949
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 99
1865 - 1937
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 100
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 101
1865 - 1958
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 102
1865 - 1948
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 103
1865 - 1923
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 104
1865 - 1943
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 105
1865 - 1959
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 106
1865 - 1933
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 107
1876 - 1940
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 90
1863 - 1940
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 91
1871 - 1940
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 92
1868 - 1940
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 93
1890 - 1940
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 94
1915 - 1940
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 95
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 96
1910 - 1940
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 97
1915 - 1940
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 98
1877 - 1940
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 99
1898 - 1940
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 100
1907 - 1940
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 101
1882 - 1940
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 102
Among people born in France, Pierre Weiss ranks 3,213 out of 6,011. Before him are Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Pierre Barouh (1934), Tristan Bernard (1866), Pierre Gamarra (1919), Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), and Thierry Lhermitte (1952). After him are Louis-Mathieu Molé (1781), Jacques Simon (1941), Dany Robin (1927), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jules Cambon (1845), and Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892).
1827 - 1895
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 3,207
1934 - 2016
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 3,208
1866 - 1947
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 3,209
1919 - 2009
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 3,210
1704 - 1772
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 3,211
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 3,212
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 3,213
1781 - 1855
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 3,214
1941 - 2017
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 3,215
1927 - 1995
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 3,216
1290 - 1350
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 3,217
1845 - 1935
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 3,218
1892 - 1981
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 3,219
Among physicists born in France, Pierre Weiss ranks 56. Before him are Gaspard de Prony (1755), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jacques Babinet (1794), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Claude Pouillet (1790), and Pierre Victor Auger (1899). After him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), and Carl August von Steinheil (1801).
1755 - 1839
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 50
1797 - 1869
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 51
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 52
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 53
1790 - 1868
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 54
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 55
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 56
1700 - 1782
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 57
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 58
1839 - 1902
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 59
1804 - 1883
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 60
1836 - 1912
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 61
1801 - 1870
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 62