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Arthur Morin

1795 - 1880

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Arthur Jules Morin (19 October 1795 – 7 February 1880) was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. He introduced the term coefficient of friction and demonstrated its utility. In 1850, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Morin is the 203rd most popular engineer (up from 206th in 2019), the 3,541st most popular biography from France (down from 3,487th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Arthur Morin ranks 203 out of 389. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Alexander Lodygin, François Hennebique, Vasily Mishin, Adolphe Alphand, and Eugene Stoner. After him are Evgeny Paton, Franz Grashof, William Playfair, Emily Warren Roebling, Alexander Kemurdzhian, and Michele Besso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Arthur Morin ranks 43. Before him are Kondraty Ryleyev, Karl Ludwig Sand, Ghazi Muhammad, James Braid, Joseph Böhm, and Peter Jan Beckx. After him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Charles Barry, Thomas Arnold, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, and José Gregorio Monagas. Among people deceased in 1880, Arthur Morin ranks 41. Before him are Sunanda Kumariratana, Robert Fortune, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Benjamin Peirce, and Edmond Albius. After him are Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Edwin Drake, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, and Peter Wilhelm Lund.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Morin ranks 3,541 out of 6,770. Before him are Laetitia Casta (1978), Déodat de Séverac (1872), Jean Joseph Mounier (1758), Libéral Bruant (1636), Bernard Maris (1946), and Jean-Claude Izzo (1945). After him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Louis Faidherbe (1818), Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763), Lucien Aimar (1941), Prince Dimitri Romanov (1926), and Hélène Prévost (1900).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Arthur Morin ranks 35. Before him are Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Philippe LeBon (1767), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), François Hennebique (1842), and Adolphe Alphand (1817). After him are Evgeny Paton (1870), Émile Levassor (1843), Michel Chevalier (1806), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Charles Renard (1847), and Eugène Belgrand (1810).

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