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Louis Poinsot

1777 - 1859

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Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: [lwi pwɛ̃so]; 3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859) was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Poinsot is the 352nd most popular physicist (up from 388th in 2019), the 1,693rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,159th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis Poinsot ranks 352 out of 851. Before him are Yakov Zeldovich, Walther Gerlach, John G. Trump, Theodore Lyman IV, Ami Argand, and Auguste Bravais. After him are Hans Kramers, Jean-Charles de Borda, Pascual Jordan, Frank Wilczek, Franz Aepinus, and Nathan Rosen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Louis Poinsot ranks 19. Before him are Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Bernard Courtois, and Adélaïde d'Orléans. After him are Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Guillaume Dupuytren, Filippo Taglioni, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Lorenzo Bartolini. Among people deceased in 1859, Louis Poinsot ranks 24. Before him are Bettina von Arnim, Leigh Hunt, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Walter Hunt, Nana Sahib, and Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. After him are Carl Adolph Agardh, John Austin, Tatya Tope, Robert Stephenson, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, and Joseph Diez Gergonne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Poinsot ranks 1,693 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Gachet (1828), Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (1563), Caesarius of Arles (470), Henri Gatien Bertrand (1773), Pierre Puget (1620), and William of Champeaux (1070). After him are Renata of Lorraine (1544), Philippe de Broca (1933), Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Patrick Tambay (1949), and Vincent of Lérins (400).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis Poinsot ranks 41. Before him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Marguerite Perey (1909), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), and Auguste Bravais (1811). After him are Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Henri Pitot (1695), Gaston Planté (1834), Maurice de Broglie (1875), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), and Léon Brillouin (1889).

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