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Willem 's Gravesande

1688 - 1742

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Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688 – 28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental measurement of kinetic energy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem 's Gravesande has received more than 74,760 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem 's Gravesande is the 537th most popular mathematician (down from 489th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 492nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 537 out of 1,004. Before him are Egon Pearson, Ismaël Bullialdus, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Jakob Hermann, and Sydney Chapman. After him are Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Pál Turán, Simon von Stampfer, D. R. Kaprekar, Luis Caffarelli, and Auguste Kerckhoffs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 22. Before him are François Lemoyne, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Friedrich Fasch, and Jai Singh II. After him are George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Ferdinand Brokoff, and Mikhail Zemtsov. Among people deceased in 1742, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 14. Before him are Luigi Guido Grandi, Friedrich Hoffmann, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský. After him are Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg, and Richard Bentley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 550 out of 1,646. Before him are Hannie Schaft (1920), Godfried Schalcken (1643), Corine Rottschäfer (1938), Jan Baptist Weenix (1621), Meijer de Haan (1852), and Corrie ten Boom (1892). After him are Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1612), Hendrikus Colijn (1869), Hans Gillhaus (1963), Albert Eckhout (1610), Willem Schermerhorn (1894), and Corneille de Lyon (1500).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 9. Before him are L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Gemma Frisius (1508), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), and Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918). After him are Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), Jacobus Golius (1596), Gustav de Vries (1866), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).

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