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Gaspard de Prony

1755 - 1839

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Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (22 July 1755 – 29 July 1839) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnières-sur-Seine, France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaspard de Prony is the 504th most popular physicist (down from 466th in 2019), the 3,210th most popular biography from France (down from 2,886th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaspard de Prony ranks 504 out of 851. Before him are Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Robert Serber, Charles Galton Darwin, Alfred Ewing, and Eugen Goldstein. After him are Giovanni Aldini, Pierre Victor Auger, Dmitri Ivanenko, Frederick Guthrie, Nicola Cabibbo, and George Zweig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Gaspard de Prony ranks 35. Before him are John Marshall, Robert Kerr, Fausto Elhuyar, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart. After him are Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Sarah Siddons, Jacques Labillardière, Dorothea Viehmann, and Marc-Antoine Parseval. Among people deceased in 1839, Gaspard de Prony ranks 29. Before him are Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Dorothea von Schlegel, Maurice de Guérin, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, and Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert. After him are Lady Hester Stanhope, Denis Davydov, Giuseppe Valadier, Joseph-François Michaud, Yuriy Venelin, and Bhimsen Thapa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaspard de Prony ranks 3,210 out of 6,770. Before him are Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1010), Antoine de Rivarol (1753), Joseph, Duke of Parma (1875), Bob Sinclar (1969), William IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), and Jules Barbier (1825). After him are Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Simon Marmion (1425), Charles Rollin (1661), Freya Stark (1893), and Henri Brocard (1845).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaspard de Prony ranks 55. Before him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Jules Jamin (1818), Henri Tresca (1814), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), and Jacques Babinet (1794). After him are Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), and Claude Pouillet (1790).

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