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Pierre Louis Dulong

1785 - 1838

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Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE (; French: [dylɔ̃]; 12 February 1785 – 19 July 1838) was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries for his studies into the elasticity of steam, conduction of heat, and specific heats of gases. He worked most extensively on the specific heat capacity and the expansion and refractive indices of gases. He collaborated the co-discoverer of the Dulong–Petit law. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Louis Dulong is the 317th most popular physicist (up from 332nd in 2019), the 1,354th most popular biography from France (up from 1,671st in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Physicist.

Pierre Louis Dulong is most famous for his work in thermodynamics and for being the first person to identify the Dulong-Petit law.

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Among physicists, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 317 out of 851. Before him are Dennis W. Sciama, Christoph Scheiner, Daniel C. Tsui, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steven Chu, and Hagen Kleinert. After him are Shuji Nakamura, Félix Savart, John Tyndall, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Charles Fabry, and Alexey Ekimov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 14. Before him are Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, and Shah Shujah Durrani. After him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John James Audubon, Adam Sedgwick, Carl Adolph Agardh, and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1838, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 8. Before him are William Clark, Adelbert von Chamisso, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, and Johanna Schopenhauer. After him are Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Frédéric Cuvier, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 1,354 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Bouguer (1698), Michel Adanson (1727), Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Monique Wittig (1935), Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), and Jane Avril (1868). After him are Félix Savart (1791), Maine de Biran (1766), Pierre Lescot (1515), Maurice Duverger (1917), Marie Laurencin (1883), and Constance of Arles (974).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Louis Dulong ranks 31. Before him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), and Alain Aspect (1947). After him are Félix Savart (1791), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Charles Fabry (1867), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Marguerite Perey (1909), and Paul-Jacques Curie (1855).

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