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Alexis Thérèse Petit

1791 - 1820

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Alexis Thérèse Petit (French: [pəti]; 2 October 1791 – 21 June 1820) was a French physicist. Petit is known for his work on the efficiencies of air- and steam-engines, published in 1818 (Mémoire sur l’emploi du principe des forces vives dans le calcul des machines). His well-known discussions with the French physicist Sadi Carnot, founder of thermodynamics, may have stimulated Carnot in his reflexions on heat engines and thermodynamic efficiency. The Dulong–Petit law (1819) is named after him and his collaborator Pierre Louis Dulong. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexis Thérèse Petit is the 660th most popular physicist (down from 571st in 2019), the 4,425th most popular biography from France (down from 3,888th in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 660 out of 851. Before him are John Sealy Townsend, William Higinbotham, Edward Condon, Brian Greene, C. V. Boys, and Paul Scherrer. After him are Matvei Bronstein, Michael Green, Mario Livio, Seth Neddermeyer, Helen Quinn, and Alexander Markovich Polyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 42. Before him are Odilon Barrot, Josef Munzinger, Jean Cruveilhier, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, and József Katona. After him are José Ignacio Pavón, Henryk Rzewuski, Juan Francisco Giró, Kazimierz Brodziński, Allan Cunningham, and John Nelson. Among people deceased in 1820, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 38. Before him are Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Ivan Gudovich, Claudine Picardet, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, and Nicolaus Michael Oppel. After him are Charles Blagden, Palisot de Beauvois, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Stephen Decatur, William Ellery, and Henry Grattan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 4,425 out of 6,770. Before him are Colette Marchand (1925), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), Camille Mandrillon (1891), Alphonso, Earl of Chester (1273), Gilbert Bougnol (1866), and Simone Segouin (1925). After him are Jean Langlais (1907), Hervé Revelli (1946), Augustin Chantrel (1906), Joseph Roumanille (1818), Jean Barraqué (1928), and Victor Puiseux (1820).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 69. Before him are Pierre Weiss (1865), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Jean Becquerel (1878), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Yvette Cauchois (1908), and Ferdinand Monoyer (1836). After him are Hubert Curien (1924), Jacques Friedel (1921), and Thibault Damour (1951).

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