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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 68,843 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem 's Gravesande is the 490th most popular mathematician (down from 483rd in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 455th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 490 out of 823. Before him are Nina Bari, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Jakob Hermann, Harold Jeffreys, Paul Halmos, and William Thurston. After him are Johannes de Muris, John Pell, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Jacques Herbrand, Louis Bachelier, and Georg Mohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 21. Before him are Antonio Corradini, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and François Lemoyne. After him are Jai Singh II, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Mikhail Zemtsov. Among people deceased in 1742, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 13. Before him are Friedrich Hoffmann, Arvid Horn, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, Luigi Guido Grandi, and Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský. After him are John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg, and Richard Bentley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem 's Gravesande ranks 493 out of 1,427. Before him are Corneille de Lyon (1500), Wim Rijsbergen (1952), Erik ten Hag (1970), Rie Mastenbroek (1919), Jan Mostaert (1475), and Hannie Schaft (1920). After him are Dirck Coornhert (1522), Dick van Dijk (1946), George Baker (1944), Henri Nouwen (1932), Gijs van Lennep (1942), and Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801).

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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), Gemma Frisius (1508), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), and Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835). After him are Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).

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