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Édouard Branly

1844 - 1940

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Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly (23 October 1844 – 24 March 1940) was a French inventor, physicist and professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard Branly has received more than 80,056 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Branly is the 167th most popular inventor (up from 192nd in 2019), the 2,171st most popular biography from France (up from 2,373rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Édouard Branlies by language

Over the past year Édouard Branly has had the most page views in the with 18,740 views, followed by English (10,601), and Russian (3,447). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (83.39%), Ukrainian (71.89%), and Catalan (65.52%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Édouard Branly ranks 167 out of 426. Before him are Hovannes Adamian, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Royal Rife, Angelo Moriondo, Lucien Olivier, and Siegfried Marcus. After him are Elihu Thomson, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Guillaume Amontons, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Reginald Fessenden, and Charles Cros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Édouard Branly ranks 39. Before him are Thomas Eakins, Henry J. Heinz, Victorine Meurent, William Robert Brooks, Mihály Munkácsy, and Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Minna Canth, Carl Hagenbeck, and Vasily Polenov. Among people deceased in 1940, Édouard Branly ranks 58. Before him are Anton Korošec, Arthur Zimmermann, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Jan Kubelík, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Wilhelm Dörpfeld. After him are Jesse Livermore, Nedo Nadi, Lewis Hine, Marie Krøyer, Willi Münzenberg, and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Branly ranks 2,171 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Ducasse (1956), Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (1428), Yannick Noah (1960), André Claveau (1911), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), and Leos Carax (1960). After him are Alexandre Astruc (1923), Henri Gouraud (1867), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe (1747), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951), and Ghislaine Maxwell (1961).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Édouard Branly ranks 23. Before him are Clément Ader (1841), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), Henri Giffard (1825), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817). After him are Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), Joseph Monier (1823), Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), and Émile Baudot (1845).

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