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Étienne-Louis Malus

1775 - 1812

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Étienne-Louis Malus (; French: [e.tjɛn.lwi ma.lys]; 23 July 1775 – 23 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. Malus was born in Paris, France and studied at the military engineering school at Mezires where he was taught by Gaspard Monge. He participated in Napoleon's expedition into Egypt (1798 to 1801). He was also a member of the mathematics section of the Institut d'Égypte. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Étienne-Louis Malus is the 193rd most popular mathematician (up from 212th in 2019), the 1,227th most popular biography from France (up from 1,464th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Mathematician.

Étienne-Louis Malus was a French physicist who discovered the law of linear polarization in optics.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Étienne-Louis Malus ranks 193 out of 1,004Before him are Jakob Steiner, Hans Hahn, G. I. Taylor, Harald Bohr, Rafael Bombelli, and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow. After him are Wacław Sierpiński, Camille Jordan, Jan Łukasiewicz, René Thom, James Gregory, and Lewis Fry Richardson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Étienne-Louis Malus ranks 13Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Matthew Lewis, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. After him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Adam Albert von Neipperg, Louisa Adams, and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle. Among people deceased in 1812, Étienne-Louis Malus ranks 4Before him are Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Pyotr Bagration, and Emanuel Schikaneder. After him are George Clinton, Sacagawea, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Spencer Perceval, and Isaac Titsingh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne-Louis Malus ranks 1,227 out of 6,770Before him are Johannes Tauler (1300), Isabella of Valois (1389), Charles Nodier (1780), Jules de Polignac (1780), Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737), and Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767). After him are Louis, Count of Évreux (1276), Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156), Maurice Ronet (1927), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), Pepin II of Aquitaine (823), and Gottfried von Strassburg (1180).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Étienne-Louis Malus ranks 40Before him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Étienne Bézout (1730), Édouard Lucas (1842), and Jean Gaston Darboux (1842). After him are Camille Jordan (1838), René Thom (1923), André Weil (1906), Élie Cartan (1869), Pierre Bouguer (1698), and Laurent Schwartz (1915).