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Émilie du Châtelet

1706 - 1749

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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French mathematician and natural philosopher (now called a physicist) from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749. Her most recognized achievement is her translation of and her commentary on Isaac Newton's 1687 book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica containing basic laws of physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émilie du Châtelet has received more than 1,434,508 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Émilie du Châtelet is the 59th most popular mathematician (up from 91st in 2019), the 422nd most popular biography from France (up from 624th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 59 out of 1,004. Before her are Philolaus, Marin Mersenne, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Gaspard Monge, and Al-Battani. After her are August Ferdinand Möbius, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Hermann Minkowski, Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, and Simon Stevin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 2. Before her is Benjamin Franklin. After her are Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, John Dollond, Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, John Baskerville, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, and Giuseppe Asclepi. Among people deceased in 1749, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 1. After her are Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Adel Shah, Alessandro Magnasco, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Jan van Huysum, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, William Jones, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, and André Cardinal Destouches.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 422 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Alexis Carrel (1873), Pytheas (-380), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), and Fernand Léger (1881). After her are Marc Bloch (1886), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Giambologna (1529), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Émilie du Châtelet ranks 14. Before her are François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), and Gaspard Monge (1746). After her are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661).

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