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Henri Pitot

1695 - 1771

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Henri Pitot (French: [ɑ̃ʁi pito]; May 3, 1695 – December 27, 1771) was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube. The incoming fluid in the internal tube may be blocked off where a pressure gauge can indicate the pressure, or fed to a closed space to pressurise that space such as to the float bowl in a carburetor, or to a manometer using the fluid which is flowing. In that last case the height of the fluid column is proportional to the square of the velocity of the fluid at the inlet to the pitot tube. This relationship was discovered by Henri Pitot in 1732, when he was assigned the task of measuring the flow in the river Seine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Pitot is the 362nd most popular physicist (down from 323rd in 2019), the 1,827th most popular biography from France (down from 1,549th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henri Pitot ranks 362 out of 851. Before him are Frank Wilczek, Franz Aepinus, Nathan Rosen, E. C. George Sudarshan, William Whewell, and Heinrich Geißler. After him are Duncan Haldane, Gaston Planté, Théophile de Donder, Louis Slotin, William Sturgeon, and George F. R. Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1695, Henri Pitot ranks 5. Before him are Mary Read, Pietro Locatelli, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. After him are Adrien Manglard, John Bevis, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Giuseppe Sammartini, François de Cuvilliés, Martin van Meytens, and Carl Gustaf Tessin. Among people deceased in 1771, Henri Pitot ranks 7. Before him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Philip Miller, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Louis-Michel van Loo, and Giovanni Battista Morgagni. After him are John Bevis, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, František Brixi, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, and Dmitry Laptev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Pitot ranks 1,827 out of 6,770. Before him are Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Pierre Nora (1931), Nicolas Anelka (1979), and Pierre Charron (1541). After him are Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Remy de Gourmont (1858), Marisa Berenson (1947), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Eugène Carrière (1849), and Miou-Miou (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henri Pitot ranks 43. Before him are Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Auguste Bravais (1811), Louis Poinsot (1777), and Jean-Charles de Borda (1733). After him are Gaston Planté (1834), Maurice de Broglie (1875), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Léon Brillouin (1889), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851).

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