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Louis-François-Clement Breguet

1804 - 1883

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Louis Clément François Breguet (French pronunciation: [lwi klemɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa bʁeɡɛ]; 22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883) was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet. He became manager of Breguet et Fils watchmakers in 1833 after his father Louis Antoine Breguet retired. Between 1835 and 1840 he standardized the company product line of watches, then making 350 watches per year, and diversified into scientific instruments, electrical devices, recording instruments, an electric thermometer, telegraph instruments and electrically synchronized clocks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-François-Clement Breguet is the 516th most popular physicist (down from 451st in 2019), the 3,342nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,755th in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 516 out of 851. Before him are George Zweig, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, G. M. B. Dobson, Lester Germer, Yakir Aharonov, and Ivan Puluj. After him are Clyde Cowan, Edoardo Amaldi, Konstantin Novoselov, Yuri Orlov, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, and David J. Griffiths.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 46. Before him are Constantin Hansen, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Salomon Müller, Pierre François Verhulst, Jim Bridger, and Franz Meyen. After him are Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, Alvan Clark, Osceola, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Jules Janin, and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. Among people deceased in 1883, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 48. Before him are Oswald Heer, Napoleon Orda, Reinhart Dozy, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Ciprian Porumbescu, and Heinrich von Ferstel. After him are Edward Sabine, Auguste Clésinger, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Butrus al-Bustani, Alexander H. Stephens, and Dục Đức.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 3,342 out of 6,770. Before him are Éléonore de Roye (1535), Roberto Alagna (1963), Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892), Conan II, Duke of Brittany (1030), Amélie Mauresmo (1979), and Jean Stablinski (1932). After him are Émile Faguet (1847), Jean-Christophe Bouvet (1947), Jacques Santini (1952), François Isaac de Rivaz (1752), Robert Jonquet (1925), and Suzanne Curchod (1737).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 57. Before 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). After him are Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Claude Pouillet (1790), Marcel Brillouin (1854), and Pierre Weiss (1865).

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