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Jean Charles Athanase Peltier

1785 - 1845

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Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (English: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl atanaz pɛltje]; 22 February 1785 – 27 October 1845) was a French physicist. He was originally a watch dealer, but at the age of 30 began experiments and observations in physics. Peltier was the author of numerous papers in different departments of physics. His name is specially associated with the thermal effects at junctions in a voltaic circuit, the Peltier effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Charles Athanase Peltier is the 327th most popular physicist (up from 344th in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from France (up from 1,751st in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 327 out of 851. Before him are Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Charles Fabry, Alexey Ekimov, John Stewart Bell, Armen Sarkissian, and Ludwig Prandtl. After him are Marguerite Perey, Paul-Jacques Curie, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Moshé Feldenkrais, Louis Paul Cailletet, and Leopold Infeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 15. Before him are William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Pierre Louis Dulong. After him are Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John James Audubon, Adam Sedgwick, Carl Adolph Agardh, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, and Isabella Colbran. Among people deceased in 1845, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 7. Before him are Andrew Jackson, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Julie Clary, John Frederic Daniell, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and Guadalupe Victoria. After him are Wazir Akbar Khan, Henrik Wergeland, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Bernardino Rivadavia, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Isabella Colbran.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 1,440 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Bertrand Blier (1939), Philippe Starck (1949), Emmanuelle Béart (1963), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), and Pierre Mauroy (1928). After him are Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Medardus (470), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Marguerite Perey (1909), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), and Bernard Hinault (1954).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 35. Before him are Anne L'Huillier (1958), Alain Aspect (1947), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Félix Savart (1791), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), and Charles Fabry (1867). After him are Marguerite Perey (1909), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Auguste Bravais (1811), and Louis Poinsot (1777).

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