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Édouard Roche

1820 - 1883

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Édouard Albert Roche (French: [edwaʁ albɛʁ ʁɔʃ]; 17 October 1820 – 27 April 1883) was a French astronomer and mathematician, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. His name was given to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit, and Roche lobe. He also was the author of works in meteorology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Roche is the 279th most popular mathematician (down from 252nd in 2019), the 1,700th most popular biography from France (up from 1,859th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Édouard Roche ranks 279 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Lévy, Seymour Papert, Robert Recorde, Lloyd Shapley, Israel Gelfand, and Alan Baker. After him are Vitello, George Atwood, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Jacopo Riccati, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and S. R. Ranganathan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Édouard Roche ranks 25. Before him are John Tyndall, Mathilde Bonaparte, John Tenniel, William Tecumseh Sherman, Yaqub Beg, and Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Şevkefza Kadın, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Émile Augier, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Jeanne Duval, and Eugène Fromentin. Among people deceased in 1883, Édouard Roche ranks 18. Before him are Joseph Plateau, Eva Gonzalès, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Thomas Mayne Reid, Pertevniyal Sultan, and Arnold Toynbee. After him are Ranavalona II, Prince Charles of Prussia, Sojourner Truth, Pierre Auguste Cot, Alexander Gorchakov, and Peter Cooper.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Roche ranks 1,700 out of 6,770. Before him are Renata of Lorraine (1544), Philippe de Broca (1933), Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Patrick Tambay (1949), and Vincent of Lérins (400). After him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Roger Ducos (1747), Marie de Gournay (1565), Léon Werth (1878), Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), and Christian de Castries (1902).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Édouard Roche ranks 54. Before him are Pierre Varignon (1654), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), and Paul Lévy (1886). After him are Oronce Finé (1494), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Alain Connes (1947), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), René-Louis Baire (1874), and Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771).

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