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Nicéphore Niépce

1765 - 1833

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude Niépce. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicéphore Niépce is the 19th most popular inventor, the 240th most popular biography from France (up from 270th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Inventor.

Nicéphore Niépce is most famous for his invention of photography in 1826.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 19 out of 426. Before him are Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, Nicolas Appert, Rudolf Diesel, and Cai Lun. After him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, George Stephenson, Hans Lippershey, Eli Whitney, Lee de Forest, and Bartolomeo Cristofori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 3. Before him are William IV of the United Kingdom, and Pope Gregory XVI. After him are Eli Whitney, Pyotr Bagration, Robert Fulton, Jacques MacDonald, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Karl Ludwig Harding, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, and Emma, Lady Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1833, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 1. After him are Kaspar Hauser, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Ram Mohan Roy, Marie-Antoine Carême, Richard Trevithick, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Seraphim of Sarov, Pierre André Latreille, Oliver Wolcott Jr., William Wilberforce, and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 240 out of 6,770. Before him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Richard II of England (1367), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Frédéric Mistral (1830), and Louis X of France (1289). After him are Georges Seurat (1859), Bernard Arnault (1949), Léon Foucault (1819), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), George Sand (1804), and Gustave Le Bon (1841).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 5. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Louis Daguerre (1787), Nicolas Appert (1749), and Rudolf Diesel (1858). After him are 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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