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Ami Argand

1750 - 1803

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François-Pierre-Amédée Argand, known as Ami Argand (5 July 1750 – 14 or 24 October 1803) was a Genevan physicist and chemist. He invented the Argand lamp, a great improvement on the traditional oil lamp. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ami Argand is the 350th most popular physicist (down from 333rd in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 146th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ami Argand ranks 350 out of 851. Before him are Joseph Swan, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Yakov Zeldovich, Walther Gerlach, John G. Trump, and Theodore Lyman IV. After him are Auguste Bravais, Louis Poinsot, Hans Kramers, Jean-Charles de Borda, Pascual Jordan, and Frank Wilczek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Ami Argand ranks 15. Before him are Heshen, Francisco de Miranda, Adam Afzelius, Murad Bey, Sheikh Mansur, and Karl August von Hardenberg. After him are Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Henri Grégoire, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, René Louiche Desfontaines, and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu. Among people deceased in 1803, Ami Argand ranks 12. Before him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Cardinal de Rohan, Vittorio Alfieri, and Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena. After him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Samuel Adams, Pōmare I, and Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ami Argand ranks 155 out of 1,015. Before him are Ernest Ansermet (1883), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Kurt Koch (1950), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Germain Henri Hess (1802), and Jakob Ammann (1644). After him are Max Bill (1908), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Marcel Bezençon (1907), and Théophile Steinlen (1859).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Ami Argand ranks 7. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), K. Alex Müller (1927), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), and Auguste Piccard (1884). After him are Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), and Paul Scherrer (1890).

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