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Top 100 Scientists in France

The most publicly visible scientists in France.

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The most famous scientists in France right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Louis Pasteur	France	Scientists	93.0	10.0
#2	—	Jacques Cartier	France	Scientists	79.1	0.6
#3	—	André-Marie Ampère	France	Scientists	74.5	15.0
#4	—	Pierre Curie	France	Scientists	72.8	0.0
#5	—	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	72.5	16.1
#6	—	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	72.3	0.0
#7	—	Henri Becquerel	France	Scientists	72.0	14.3
#8	—	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	France	Scientists	71.5	15.0
#9	—	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	France	Scientists	69.2	31.6
#10	—	Aurélien Barrau	France	Scientists	68.1	1.4
#11	—	Jacques Cousteau	France	Scientists	67.5	1.0
#12	—	Gabriel Lippmann	France	Scientists	66.8	15.0
#13	—	Henry Cavendish	France	Scientists	66.7	14.5
#14	—	Nicolas Appert	France	Scientists	65.2	16.4
#15	—	Rudolf Diesel	France	Scientists	65.1	0.6
#16	—	Louis de Broglie	France	Scientists	64.9	0.0
#17	—	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	France	Scientists	64.6	15.0
#18	—	Pope Sylvester II	France	Scientists	64.6	13.5
#19	—	Hans Bethe	France	Scientists	64.0	0.0
#20	—	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	63.3	15.2
#21	—	Louis Braille	France	Scientists	63.0	0.0
#22	—	Jean Baptiste Perrin	France	Scientists	62.9	1.9
#23	—	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	France	Scientists	62.9	0.0
#24	—	Henri Moissan	France	Scientists	62.9	15.0
#25	—	Samuel de Champlain	France	Scientists	62.6	16.4
#26	—	Élie Metchnikoff	France	Scientists	62.4	0.0
#27	—	Frédéric Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	61.3	1.1
#28	—	Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville	France	Scientists	61.2	10.0
#29	—	Urbain Le Verrier	France	Scientists	61.0	15.0
#30	—	Charles Messier	France	Scientists	60.5	2.2
#31	—	Françoise Barré-Sinoussi	France	Scientists	60.4	0.0
#32	—	Louis Néel	France	Scientists	60.0	8.3
#33	—	Nicéphore Niépce	France	Scientists	59.9	5.9
#34	—	Georges Charpak	France	Scientists	59.8	0.0
#35	—	Luc Montagnier	France	Scientists	59.7	0.6
#36	—	Serge Haroche	France	Scientists	59.6	13.6
#37	—	Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille	France	Scientists	59.5	39.8
#38	—	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	France	Scientists	59.2	3.3
#39	—	Charles de Foucauld	France	Scientists	58.9	10.0
#40	—	William of Rubruck	France	Scientists	58.6	14.4
#41	—	François Arago	France	Scientists	58.6	0.3
#42	—	Étienne Klein	France	Scientists	58.5	10.0
#43	—	Paul Sabatier	France	Scientists	58.4	3.2
#44	—	Victor Grignard	France	Scientists	58.3	0.0
#45	—	Marcel Dassault	France	Scientists	58.3	15.0
#46	—	Augustin-Jean Fresnel	France	Scientists	58.2	0.0
#47	—	Albert Fert	France	Scientists	58.2	0.0
#48	—	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	France	Scientists	58.1	3.2
#49	—	Pytheas	France	Scientists	57.9	6.8
#50	—	Alfred Kastler	France	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#51	—	Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran	France	Scientists	57.7	0.6
#52	—	Louis Blériot	France	Scientists	57.7	4.6
#53	—	Jacques Vallée	France	Scientists	57.6	23.0
#54	—	Anne L'Huillier	France	Scientists	57.5	6.7
#55	—	Alain Aspect	France	Scientists	57.3	2.3
#56	—	Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse	France	Scientists	57.3	4.2
#57	—	Adelbert von Chamisso	France	Scientists	57.1	0.6
#58	—	Hélène Langevin-Joliot	France	Scientists	56.8	6.0
#59	—	Jérôme Lalande	France	Scientists	56.6	10.0
#60	—	Jacques Marquette	France	Scientists	56.4	19.7
#61	—	Gérard Mourou	France	Scientists	56.3	4.6
#62	—	Paul Langevin	France	Scientists	55.6	0.0
#63	—	Louis Renault	France	Scientists	55.6	2.6
#64	—	Joseph Proust	France	Scientists	55.2	6.6
#65	—	Franz Reichelt	France	Scientists	55.2	0.0
#66	—	Alexandra David-Néel	France	Scientists	55.1	0.0
#67	—	Camille Flammarion	France	Scientists	55.0	0.0
#68	—	Henri Désiré Landru	France	Scientists	54.9	0.0
#69	—	Jacques Charles	France	Scientists	54.9	6.6
#70	—	Jean-Michel Cousteau	France	Scientists	54.9	15.2
#71	—	Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis	France	Scientists	54.7	0.9
#72	—	Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot	France	Scientists	54.6	8.3
#73	—	Michel Devoret	France	Scientists	54.5	1.8
#74	—	Joseph Black	France	Scientists	54.4	0.0
#75	—	Louis Lumière	France	Scientists	54.4	11.8
#76	—	Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac	France	Scientists	54.2	2.2
#77	—	Nicole-Reine Lepaute	France	Scientists	54.1	19.5
#78	—	Léon Brillouin	France	Scientists	54.1	3.7
#79	—	Antoine-Augustin Parmentier	France	Scientists	54.0	0.8
#80	—	Jules Dumont d'Urville	France	Scientists	54.0	1.7
#81	—	Marcellin Berthelot	France	Scientists	53.9	0.0
#82	—	Louis Le Prince	France	Scientists	53.9	0.0
#83	—	Jean-Marie Lehn	France	Scientists	53.8	0.6
#84	—	Antoine Laurent de Jussieu	France	Scientists	53.7	2.2
#85	—	Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne	France	Scientists	53.7	7.8
#86	—	Alexis Clairaut	France	Scientists	53.7	2.7
#87	—	Jeanne Villepreux-Power	France	Scientists	53.7	17.6
#88	—	Auguste Bravais	France	Scientists	53.6	11.7
#89	—	René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle	France	Scientists	53.6	0.1
#90	—	Edmond Becquerel	France	Scientists	53.5	2.5
#91	—	Edme Mariotte	France	Scientists	53.5	3.2
#92	—	Joseph Marie Jacquard	France	Scientists	53.5	0.1
#93	—	Jeanne Baret	France	Scientists	53.4	0.0
#94	—	Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans	France	Scientists	53.4	2.5
#95	—	Constantin-François Chassebœuf	France	Scientists	53.4	1.4
#96	—	Yann LeCun French computer scientist, Chief AI Scientist at Meta	France	Scientists	53.3	1.3
#97	—	Michel Eugène Chevreul	France	Scientists	53.3	0.0
#98	—	Nicolas Leblanc	France	Scientists	53.3	5.6
#99	—	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	France	Scientists	53.2	1.0
#100	—	Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza	France	Scientists	53.1	0.0

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