# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-du-buat
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:23:41.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-du-buat"
name: "Pierre du Buat"
slug: "pierre-du-buat"
description: "Count Pierre-Louis-George du Buat was a French military engineer who worked on problems in hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He examined the flow of water and came up with a mathematical formulation defining the rate of flow of water through pipes which he published in Principes d’hydraulique, vérifiés par un grand nombre d’expériences faites par ordre du gouvernement."
tagline: "French hydraulic engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_Louis_George_du_Buat.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1734-04-23"
deathDate: "1809-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.6
  momentum:             2.727272727272728
  historical:           5.001476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Louis-Georges_du_Buat"
    title: "Pierre-Louis-Georges du Buat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Louis_George_du_Buat"
    title: "Pierre Louis George du Buat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Louis_du_Buat"
    title: "Pierre Louis du Buat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8E%D0%B1%D1%8E%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8"
    title: "Дюбюа, Пьер Луи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_du_Buat"
    title: "Pierre du Buat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3387788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump