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Louis Daguerre

1787 - 1851

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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( də-GAIR; French: [lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de daɡɛʁ]; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter, scenic designer, and a developer of the diorama theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Daguerre is the 15th most popular inventor (up from 16th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from France (up from 184th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Inventor.

Louis Daguerre is most famous for his invention of the daguerreotype process.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Daguerre ranks 15 out of 426. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi, Henry Ford, Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, and Nikolaus Otto. After him are Nicolas Appert, Rudolf Diesel, Cai Lun, Nicéphore Niépce, Karl Ferdinand Braun, and George Stephenson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Louis Daguerre ranks 1. After him are Rasmus Rask, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Vuk Karadžić, Shaka, François Guizot, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Guillaume Henri Dufour. Among people deceased in 1851, Louis Daguerre ranks 4. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Marie Thérèse of France, and Mary Shelley. After him are J. M. W. Turner, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Princess Augusta of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Daguerre ranks 174 out of 6,770. Before him are François Viète (1540), Margaret of Valois (1553), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Henrietta Maria of France (1609), and Bernadette Soubirous (1844). After him are Saint Sebastian (300), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Madame du Barry (1743), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Philip V of Spain (1683), and Jean Racine (1639).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Daguerre ranks 2. Before him are Louis Braille (1809). After him are Nicolas Appert (1749), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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