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Auguste Bravais

1811 - 1863

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Auguste Bravais (French pronunciation: [oɡyst bʁavɛ]; 23 August 1811, Annonay, Ardèche – 30 March 1863, Le Chesnay, France) was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Bravais also studied magnetism, the northern lights, meteorology, geobotany, phyllotaxis, astronomy, statistics and hydrography. He studied at the Collège Stanislas in Paris before joining the École Polytechnique in 1829, where he was a classmate of groundbreaking mathematician Évariste Galois, whom Bravais actually beat in a scholastic mathematics competition. Towards the end of his studies he became a naval officer, and sailed on the Finistere in 1832 as well as the Loiret afterwards. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Bravais is the 351st most popular physicist (up from 356th in 2019), the 1,675th most popular biography from France (up from 1,868th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Auguste Bravais ranks 351 out of 851. Before him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Yakov Zeldovich, Walther Gerlach, John G. Trump, Theodore Lyman IV, and Ami Argand. After him are Louis Poinsot, Hans Kramers, Jean-Charles de Borda, Pascual Jordan, Frank Wilczek, and Franz Aepinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Auguste Bravais ranks 22. Before him are Ambroise Thomas, Elisha Otis, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, George Gilbert Scott, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and Jón Sigurðsson. After him are Jules Dupré, Ferdinand Hiller, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Zeng Guofan, and Kurmanjan Datka. Among people deceased in 1863, Auguste Bravais ranks 14. Before him are Horace Vernet, Jakob Steiner, Alfred de Vigny, Franz Xaver Gruber, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Giovanni Battista Amici. After him are Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Solomon Northup, Natalia Pushkina, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, and C. L. Gloger.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Bravais ranks 1,675 out of 6,770. Before him are Philibert de l'Orme (1514), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (1400), Jeanne Guyon (1648), Raymond Domenech (1952), and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754). After him are Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (1165), Audrey Tautou (1976), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), Yolande of Valois (1434), Hugh of Cluny (1024), and Roger Lemerre (1941).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Auguste Bravais ranks 40. Before him are Charles Fabry (1867), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Marguerite Perey (1909), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797). After him are Louis Poinsot (1777), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Henri Pitot (1695), Gaston Planté (1834), Maurice de Broglie (1875), and John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683).

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