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Étienne-Gaspard Robert

1763 - 1837

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Étienne-Gaspard Robert (15 June 1763 – 2 July 1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent physicist, stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. He was described by Charles Dickens as "an honourable and well-educated showman". Alongside his pioneering work on projection techniques for his shows Robert was also a physics lecturer and a keen balloonist at a time of great development in aviation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Étienne-Gaspard Robert is the 576th most popular physicist (up from 605th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 565th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Étienne-Gaspard Robert ranks 576 out of 851. Before him are John Lennard-Jones, Jakob II Bernoulli, Marietta Blau, Claude Pouillet, Marcel Brillouin, and Eric Allin Cornell. After him are Wallace Clement Sabine, Norman Holter, Mark Oliphant, Yakov Frenkel, Yulii Khariton, and Antonio Pacinotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Étienne-Gaspard Robert ranks 34. Before him are Domenico Dragonetti, Johan David Åkerblad, Adalbert Gyrowetz, José Bonifácio de Andrada, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, and Fyodor Rostopchin. After him are Dmitry Senyavin, Pierre Adet, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Johann Gottfried Seume, William Cobbett, and Wolfe Tone. Among people deceased in 1837, Étienne-Gaspard Robert ranks 37. Before him are Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Alexander Bestuzhev, Agustín Eyzaguirre, Valentino Fioravanti, and Yuri Lisyansky. After him are Pavel Schilling, Diego Portales, Herman of Alaska, John Soane, Ayub Shah Durrani, and Joseph Grimaldi.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Étienne-Gaspard Robert ranks 537 out of 1,190. Before him are William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (1020), Henri Jaspar (1870), Pierre de Decker (1812), Jan Gruter (1560), Brian Molko (1972), and Gonzales Coques (1614). After him are Charles Delporte (1893), Maurice Verdonck (1873), Joseph Pholien (1884), Hermann Huppen (1938), Henri Coppens (1930), and Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Étienne-Gaspard Robert ranks 5. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894), François Englert (1932), Joseph Plateau (1801), and Théophile de Donder (1872). After him are Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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