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Yvette Cauchois

1908 - 1999

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Yvette Cauchois (French pronunciation: [ivɛt koʃwa] ; 19 December 1908 – 19 November 1999) was a French physicist known for her contributions to X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray optics, and for pioneering European synchrotron research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yvette Cauchois has received more than 28,061 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yvette Cauchois is the 693rd most popular physicist, the 4,612th most popular biography from France and the 70th most popular French Physicist.

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  • 46.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yvette Cauchois ranks 693 out of 851. Before her are Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Gregory Breit, Leona Woods, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Leonard Mlodinow, and Alfred Ewing. After her are Leonid Sedov, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Humberto Fernández-Morán, E. C. George Sudarshan, Alvin M. Weinberg, and Elda Emma Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Yvette Cauchois ranks 314. Before her are Osvaldo Velloso de Barros, Louis L'Amour, Natalya Baranskaya, Inga Gentzel, Ugo Pignotti, and Erik Almgren. After her are Pierre Graber, Buster Crabbe, Morris Kline, Karl Warner, Miguel Otero Silva, and Olaf Hoffsbakken. Among people deceased in 1999, Yvette Cauchois ranks 217. Before her are Samiha Khalil, Sufia Kamal, Maigonis Valdmanis, Charlie Byrd, Eric Wolf, and Vladimir Yashchenko. After her are Leonid Sedov, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Néstor Togneri, Frank Lubin, Georges Miez, and Robert Kramer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yvette Cauchois ranks 4,612 out of 6,770. Before her are Édouard Chavannes (1865), Claudine Picardet (1735), Louis-Marie Billé (1938), Robert Guédiguian (1953), Robert Boutigny (1927), and Arnaud Desplechin (1960). After her are Gilles Kepel (1955), Jean Dotto (1928), Alain Krivine (1941), Christian Noël (1945), Christian Tissier (1951), and Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Yvette Cauchois ranks 70. Before her are Jean Becquerel (1878), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), and Thibault Damour (1951). After her are Hubert Curien (1924), and Jacques Friedel (1921).

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