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Hippolyte Fizeau

1819 - 1896

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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (French: [ipɔlit fizo]; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist who, in 1849, measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hippolyte Fizeau is the 162nd most popular physicist (down from 111th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from France (down from 487th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Physicist.

Hippolyte Fizeau was a French physicist who was most famous for his work in the field of optics. He is most famous for being the first person to measure the speed of light.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 162 out of 851. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Biot, Frits Zernike, Felix Bloch, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Johann Jakob Balmer, and Joseph Henry. After him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Georges Charpak, Gerd Binnig, Ernst Abbe, Paul Langevin, and Hideki Yukawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 11. Before him are Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Báb. After him are Maria II of Portugal, John Couch Adams, John Ruskin, Franz von Suppé, George Eliot, and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. Among people deceased in 1896, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 9. Before him are Paul Verlaine, Anton Bruckner, August Kekulé, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Ivar Aasen, and Frederic Leighton. After him are William Morris, Otto Lilienthal, John Everett Millais, José Rizal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and H. H. Holmes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 537 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Barbusse (1873), Jean-Louis Tauran (1943), Marc Bloch (1886), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), William II of England (1056), and Emma of Normandy (985). After him are Joseph Joffre (1852), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Louis Aragon (1897), Jean Lannes (1769), and John Vianney (1786).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 18. Before him are Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Kastler (1902), Hans Bethe (1906), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774). After him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Paul Langevin (1872), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Edme Mariotte (1620), Jacques Charles (1763), and Gérard Mourou (1944).

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