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Louis Vicat

1786 - 1861

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Louis Vicat (31 March 1786, Nevers – 10 April 1861, Grenoble) was a French engineer. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1804 and the École des Ponts et Chaussées in 1806. Vicat studied the setting of mortars and developed his own. The first building using it is the bridge at Souillac (Dordogne), erected in 1818. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Vicat is the 246th most popular engineer (up from 257th in 2019), the 3,973rd most popular biography from France (up from 4,112th in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Louis Vicat ranks 246 out of 389. Before him are Arthur Rudolph, Yahya Ayyash, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Charles F. Brush, Eugène Flachat, and Ed Heinemann. After him are Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Sergey Chaplygin, Hans Moravec, Léon Serpollet, Brian McGuire, and Waloddi Weibull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Louis Vicat ranks 47. Before him are Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Sunthorn Phu, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, Moshoeshoe I, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Pavel Schilling. After him are Thomas Nuttall, Andreas Metaxas, Gregor MacGregor, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Auguste de Montferrand, and Wilhelm Gesenius. Among people deceased in 1861, Louis Vicat ranks 51. Before him are Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Václav Hanka, Antun Mihanović, Peter Georg Bang, Pierre Bosquet, and Infante João, Duke of Beja. After him are Stephen A. Douglas, Abel de Pujol, Ippolito Nievo, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Michele Tenore, and José María Obando.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Vicat ranks 3,973 out of 6,770. Before him are Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892), Louis Hémon (1880), Marc Levy (1961), Henri Decoin (1890), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), and André Labatut (1891). After him are Jean-Pierre Darroussin (1953), Otto Froitzheim (1884), Léo Malet (1909), François Delsarte (1811), Michel Carré (1821), and Corinne Marchand (1931).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Louis Vicat ranks 45. Before him are Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Charles Renard (1847), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), René Panhard (1841), and Eugène Flachat (1802). After him are Léon Serpollet (1858), Louis Pouzin (1931), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Marcel Deprez (1843), Ernest Goüin (1815), and Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801).

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