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Marcel Brillouin

1854 - 1948

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Louis Marcel Brillouin (French pronunciation: [lwi maʁsɛl bʁijwɛ̃]; 19 December 1854 – 16 June 1948) was a French physicist and mathematician. He carried research in many realms of physics, including fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, geophysics, quantum mechanics and general relativity. Physicist Reinhold Furth referred to Brillioun as the Nestor of Physics, in reference to mythological figure, Nestor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Brillouin is the 574th most popular physicist (up from 607th in 2019), the 3,884th most popular biography from France (up from 4,131st in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marcel Brillouin ranks 574 out of 851. Before him are Ralph H. Fowler, Willem Hendrik Keesom, John Lennard-Jones, Jakob II Bernoulli, Marietta Blau, and Claude Pouillet. After him are Eric Allin Cornell, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Wallace Clement Sabine, Norman Holter, Mark Oliphant, and Yakov Frenkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Marcel Brillouin ranks 83. Before him are Ludwig von Pastor, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Franz Rohr von Denta, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Alexandru Marghiloman, and Nikolai Ruzsky. After him are Jane Toppan, José Canalejas, Johan Turi, L. A. Ring, Robert Borden, and Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. Among people deceased in 1948, Marcel Brillouin ranks 135. Before him are Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, José Vianna da Motta, Nikolai Podvoisky, Sigrid Hjertén, Eugen Slutsky, and Subhadra Kumari Chauhan. After him are Jāzeps Vītols, Alfred Kerr, Alfred Lacroix, Emmy Hennings, May Whitty, and Elsa Brändström.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Brillouin ranks 3,884 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Fleury (1640), Rachida Dati (1965), André Chéron (1895), Hortense Schneider (1833), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), and André Auffray (1884). After him are Ernest Hébert (1817), Michèle Arnaud (1919), René Panhard (1841), François Perrier (1833), Louis Boyer (1901), and Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Marcel Brillouin ranks 62. Before him are Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), and Claude Pouillet (1790). After him are Pierre Weiss (1865), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Jean Becquerel (1878), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Yvette Cauchois (1908), and Ferdinand Monoyer (1836).

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