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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval

1851 - 1940

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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (8 June 1851 – 31 December 1940) was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil d'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval is the 416th most popular physicist (down from 401st in 2019), the 2,391st most popular biography from France (down from 2,355th in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 416 out of 851. Before him are Edwin Hall, Oskar Klein, Philip Abelson, Charles H. Bennett, William Watson, and Lyman Spitzer. After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann, Robert W. Wood, Bruno Rossi, Georgy Flyorov, Johann Andreas Segner, and John Mauchly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 38. Before him are Jonas Basanavičius, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Doc Holliday, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Aristide Bruant, and Franz von Liszt. After him are Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Asa Griggs Candler, Otto Schott, Theodor Lipps, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Alois Jirásek. Among people deceased in 1940, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 69. Before him are Marie Krøyer, Giuseppe Motta, Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, Arthur Zimmermann, Willi Münzenberg, and Nedo Nadi. After him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Alfred Loisy, Ivane Javakhishvili, Thomas Heath, Olga Boznańska, and Anton Hansen Tammsaare.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 2,391 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571), Hervé (1825), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Julien Benda (1867), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), and Jean Delannoy (1908). After him are Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), Augustin Thierry (1795), Henri Breuil (1877), Albert Gleizes (1881), Dominique Vandamme (1770), and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 49. Before him are Henri Pitot (1695), Gaston Planté (1834), Maurice de Broglie (1875), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Léon Brillouin (1889), and Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700). After him are Jules Jamin (1818), Henri Tresca (1814), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jacques Babinet (1794), and Gaspard de Prony (1755).

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