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Jean-Antoine Nollet

1700 - 1770

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Jean-Antoine Nollet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan nole]; 19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist who conducted a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a deacon in the Catholic Church, he was also known as Abbé Nollet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Antoine Nollet is the 396th most popular physicist (down from 370th in 2019), the 2,137th most popular biography from France (down from 2,036th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 396 out of 851. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne, Léon Brillouin, Hiroshi Amano, Moritz von Jacobi, Walter A. Shewhart, and Stefan Hell. After him are John Kerr, Arpad Elo, George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, and Paul Drude.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 13. Before him are Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, James Thomson, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, and Ewald Georg von Kleist. After him are Clemens August of Bavaria, Luigi Vanvitelli, Gerard van Swieten, Joannicius III of Constantinople, Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Among people deceased in 1770, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 10. Before him are Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Suzuki Harunobu, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Thomas Chatterton, and George Grenville. After him are George Whitefield, James Stirling, Martin van Meytens, Carl Gustaf Tessin, Georg Dionysius Ehret, and Francesco Araja.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 2,137 out of 6,770. Before him are William de Longchamp (1101), Jean Françaix (1912), Alexandre Astruc (1923), Jacques Cathelineau (1759), Édouard Molinaro (1928), and Leos Carax (1960). After him are Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (1166), Roland Bonaparte (1858), Pontus De la Gardie (1520), Georges Duhamel (1884), Louis Trousselier (1881), and François-André Vincent (1746).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 48. Before him are Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Henri Pitot (1695), Gaston Planté (1834), Maurice de Broglie (1875), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), and Léon Brillouin (1889). After 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).

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