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Marie Alfred Cornu

1841 - 1902

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Marie Alfred Cornu (French: [kɔʁny]; 6 March 1841 – 12 April 1902) was a French physicist and professor of École polytechnique. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu. The Cornu spiral, a graphical device for the computation of light intensities in Fresnel's model of near-field diffraction, is named after him. The spiral (or clothoid) is also used in geometric design of roads. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Alfred Cornu is the 458th most popular physicist (up from 469th in 2019), the 2,826th most popular biography from France (up from 2,916th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marie Alfred Cornu ranks 458 out of 851. Before him are Chester Carlson, Henri Tresca, Leonard Susskind, Anatole Abragam, Rudolf Peierls, and Erich Hückel. After him are Johanna Budwig, Hendrik Casimir, Clarence Zener, Jürgen Ehlers, Carlo Matteucci, and Walter Heitler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Marie Alfred Cornu ranks 48. Before him are Mykhailo Drahomanov, Józef Brandt, Oreste Baratieri, Luigi Luzzatti, Elfrida Andrée, and Philipp Spitta. After him are Sam Loyd, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Wilfrid Laurier, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Giovanni Sgambati, and Catulle Mendès. Among people deceased in 1902, Marie Alfred Cornu ranks 31. Before him are Jan Gotlib Bloch, Albert Bierstadt, Prudente de Morais, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Imre Steindl, and Sergei Ivanovich Mosin. After him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Jules Dalou, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Moritz Kaposi, Ivan Yarkovsky, and Lazarus Fuchs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie Alfred Cornu ranks 2,826 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Lionel Terray (1921), Françoise Dolto (1908), Andréa Ferréol (1947), Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1639), and Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons (1606). After him are Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Philippe Nahon (1938), Pierre Bézier (1910), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Jacques Massu (1908), and Pierre-Émile Martin (1824).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Marie Alfred Cornu ranks 52. Before him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Léon Brillouin (1889), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Jules Jamin (1818), and Henri Tresca (1814). After him are Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jacques Babinet (1794), Gaspard de Prony (1755), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), and Gustave Trouvé (1839).

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