PHYSICIST

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

1792 - 1843

Photo of Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

Icon of person Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (French: [ɡaspaʁ ɡystav də kɔʁjɔlis]; 21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail (translated as "work") for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis is the 55th most popular physicist (up from 70th in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from France (up from 315th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Physicist.

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work on the Coriolis effect.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis by language

Loading...

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 55 out of 851. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, and Wilhelm Wien. After him are Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, and Leo Szilard.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 3. Before him are Pope Pius IX, and Gioachino Rossini. After him are John Herschel, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William II of the Netherlands, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Among people deceased in 1843, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 1. After him are Friedrich Hölderlin, Noah Webster, William I of the Netherlands, Samuel Hahnemann, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Theodoros Kolokotronis, John Armstrong Jr., Marie Anne Lenormand, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.

Others Born in 1792

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1843

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 197 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis VII of France (1120), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Nicolas Flamel (1330), André Breton (1896), Pope Urban VI (1318), and Pierre Bourdieu (1930). After him are Henry II of England (1133), Alain Prost (1955), Théodore Géricault (1791), Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), Jean Bodin (1530), and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 6. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), Louis de Broglie (1892), and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736). After him are Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Albert Fert (1938).

French born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous