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Johann Heinrich Lambert

1728 - 1777

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Johann Heinrich Lambert (German: [ˈlambɛɐ̯t]; French: Jean-Henri Lambert; 26 or 28 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse, at that time allied to the Swiss Confederacy, who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy and map projections. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Heinrich Lambert is the 67th most popular mathematician (up from 76th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from France (up from 533rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Mathematician.

Lambert was a physicist who is most famous for his law of photometry, which states that the luminous intensity of a light source is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johann Heinrich Lambert ranks 67 out of 1,004. Before him are Marin Mersenne, Émilie du Châtelet, Ludolph van Ceulen, Girard Desargues, Nikolai Lobachevsky, and Richard Dedekind. After him are Hermann Minkowski, Andrey Kolmogorov, Gaspard Monge, Norbert Wiener, Giuseppe Peano, and Stanislaw Ulam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Heinrich Lambert ranks 3. Before him are James Cook, and Peter III of Russia. After him are Joseph Black, Anton Raphael Mengs, Niccolò Piccinni, Chevalier d'Éon, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Antoine Baumé, Samuel Wallis, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, and Étienne-Louis Boullée. Among people deceased in 1777, Johann Heinrich Lambert ranks 1. After him are Joseph I of Portugal, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Albrecht von Haller, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Charles de Brosses, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Johann Andreas Segner, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Johann Heinrich Lambert ranks 444 out of 6,770. Before him are Léo Delibes (1836), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Théophile Gautier (1811), Gérard Philipe (1922), and Charles Le Brun (1619). After him are Olympe de Gouges (1748), Hans Bethe (1906), Anouk Aimée (1932), Ernest Renan (1823), Henry of Flanders (1174), and Jean Genet (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Johann Heinrich Lambert ranks 17. Before him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), and Girard Desargues (1591). After him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), and Alexis Clairaut (1713).

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