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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq

1842 - 1929

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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (pronounced [ʒozɛf valɑ̃tɛ̃ businɛsk]; 13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Valentin Boussinesq is the 590th most popular mathematician (down from 558th in 2019), the 3,594th most popular biography from France (up from 3,626th in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 590 out of 1,004. Before him are Ulisse Dini, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Plato Tiburtinus, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Lipót Fejér, and Johann Radon. After him are Bernt Michael Holmboe, Chen Jingrun, Henry Dudeney, Otto E. Neugebauer, Jean-Marie Duhamel, and Giacomo F. Maraldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 67. Before him are Alessandro Fortis, Stojan Novaković, François Hennebique, Wilhelm Jordan, Ellen Swallow Richards, and Antero de Quental. After him are Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Berthold Delbrück, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Heinrich Martin Weber, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, and Hugo Egmont Hørring. Among people deceased in 1929, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 87. Before him are Emilie Snethlage, Gustave Schlumberger, Wilhelm von Bode, Cornelis Lely, Lilli Lehmann, and Gunnar Heiberg. After him are Pierre Fatou, Ernest Mason Satow, Paul Leni, Ray Lankester, Amandus Adamson, and Walther Katzenstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 3,594 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Paulette Dubost (1910), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), Philippe Streiff (1955), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), and Gérard Larcher (1949). After him are Joseph François Dupleix (1697), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Christophe de Margerie (1951), Bernard Lacombe (1952), Charles Simon Favart (1710), and Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq ranks 86. Before him are Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Jean Leray (1906), Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517). After him are Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), René de Saussure (1868), and Serge Lang (1927).

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