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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 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

Among physicists, Pierre Weiss ranks 489 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Pierre Weiss ranks 101Before 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 96Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Weiss ranks 3,213 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Weiss ranks 56Before 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).