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Georges Leclanché

1836 - 1882

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Georges Leclanché (9 October 1839 – 14 September 1882) was a French electrical engineer chiefly remembered for his invention of the Leclanché cell, one of the first modern electrical batteries and the forerunner of the modern dry cell battery. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Leclanché is the 144th most popular engineer (down from 126th in 2019), the 2,843rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,497th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Georges Leclanché ranks 144 out of 389. Before him are Joseph M. Juran, Alexandre Darracq, John Loudon McAdam, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Pierre-Émile Martin, and J. Walter Christie. After him are Vitaly Abalakov, Franz Reuleaux, John Scott Russell, Hellmuth Walter, Marc Seguin, and Sherif Ismail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Georges Leclanché ranks 37. Before him are Tekle Giyorgis II, Ding Ruchang, Ronglu, Daniel Peter, Antônio Carlos Gomes, and Winslow Homer. After him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Piet Cronjé, Inoue Kaoru, Isabella Beeton, and Pauline von Metternich. Among people deceased in 1882, Georges Leclanché ranks 43. Before him are Berthold Auerbach, Estanislao Figueras, Alfred Escher, Johann Benedict Listing, Đuro Daničić, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. After him are John Scott Russell, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Ferdinand Reich, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Thomas Romney Robinson, and Friedrich von Lütke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Leclanché ranks 2,843 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Griaule (1898), Jean Raspail (1925), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Thierry Sabine (1949), Armand Trousseau (1801), and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555). After him are André Salmon (1881), Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), and François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Georges Leclanché ranks 17. Before him are André Courrèges (1923), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Henry Darcy (1803), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Alexandre Darracq (1855), and Pierre-Émile Martin (1824). After him are Marc Seguin (1786), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Pierre Berthier (1782), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), and Alphonse Pénaud (1850).

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