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Jules Jamin

1818 - 1886

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Jules Célestin Jamin (31 May 1818 – 12 February 1886) was a French physicist. He was professor of physics at École polytechnique from 1852 to 1881 and received the Rumford Medal in 1858 for his work on light. He improved David Brewster's inclined interference plates with the development of the Jamin interferometer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Jamin is the 423rd most popular physicist (up from 459th in 2019), the 2,469th most popular biography from France (up from 2,832nd in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jules Jamin ranks 423 out of 851. Before him are Johannes Franz Hartmann, Robert W. Wood, Bruno Rossi, Georgy Flyorov, Johann Andreas Segner, and John Mauchly. After him are Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, and Ernst Chladni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Jules Jamin ranks 46. Before him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Heinrich Göbel, and Franciscus Donders. After him are Marco Minghetti, Heinrich Kiepert, P. G. T. Beauregard, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Gustave Aimard, and Antonio Bazzini. Among people deceased in 1886, Jules Jamin ranks 24. Before him are Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Alexander Butlerov, Theodor von Oppolzer, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Adolphe Monticelli, and Charles Lwanga. After him are Marco Minghetti, José Hernández, Eliza Lynch, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Adolf Lüderitz, and Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Jamin ranks 2,469 out of 6,770. Before him are Richeza of Lotharingia (995), Charles II, Count of Alençon (1297), Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922), Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria (1374), Christian Boltanski (1944), and Charles IV, Duke of Alençon (1489). After him are François Berléand (1952), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Michel Leiris (1901), Louis Massignon (1883), Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (1753), and Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jules Jamin ranks 50. Before him are Gaston Planté (1834), Maurice de Broglie (1875), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Léon Brillouin (1889), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851). After him are Henri Tresca (1814), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jacques Babinet (1794), Gaspard de Prony (1755), and Pierre Victor Auger (1899).

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