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Jules Antoine Lissajous

1822 - 1880

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Jules Antoine Lissajous (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ɑ̃twan lisaʒu]; 4 March 1822 in Versailles – 24 June 1880 in Plombières-les-Dijon) was a French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. This led to the invention of other apparatus such as the harmonograph. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Antoine Lissajous is the 474th most popular physicist (down from 369th in 2019), the 2,958th most popular biography from France (down from 2,035th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 474 out of 851. Before him are Sameera Moussa, Mildred Dresselhaus, John Canton, John Houghton, Wilhelm Hisinger, and Emil Wiechert. After him are Carlo Rovelli, Heinrich Barkhausen, Pyotr Lebedev, Andrei Linde, Marian Smoluchowski, and Alan Sokal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 44. Before him are Jacob Moleschott, Matthew Arnold, Karamchand Gandhi, Nikolay Danilevsky, Princess Januária of Brazil, and Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz. After him are Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Adolf Kussmaul, Albrecht Ritschl, Korla Awgust Kocor, August Heinrich Petermann, and Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse. Among people deceased in 1880, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 29. Before him are Constantin Hansen, Oliver Winchester, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Raden Saleh, August Karl von Goeben, and Jules Favre. After him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Friedrich Bayer, Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, Alphonse Pénaud, and Sunanda Kumariratana.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 2,958 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe de Mornay (1549), Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648), Armand Louis de Gontaut (1747), Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles (1767), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), and Charles-Louis Philippe (1874). After him are Jacques Duclos (1896), Charles-Louis Havas (1783), Maurice Germot (1882), Jean Ferrat (1930), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), and Jean-Yves Le Drian (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 53. Before him are Léon Brillouin (1889), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Jules Jamin (1818), Henri Tresca (1814), and Marie Alfred Cornu (1841). After him are Jacques Babinet (1794), Gaspard de Prony (1755), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Gustave Trouvé (1839), and Alfred Perot (1863).

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