The Most Famous
Physicists from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 3 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 28th most number of Physicists behind Australia and Pakistan.
Top 3 Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonians Physicists of all time. This list of famous Estonians Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Emil Lenz
1804 - 1865
HPI 74.3650 langsEmil Lenz was a German physicist who discovered that when an electric current is passed through a wire, the wire becomes an electromagnet.
- #2
Thomas Johann Seebeck
1770 - 1831
HPI 65.8729 langsSeebeck discovered that when an electric current is passed through a junction of two different metals, the junction becomes hot. This effect...Read moreShow less
Seebeck discovered that when an electric current is passed through a junction of two different metals, the junction becomes hot. This effect is called the thermoelectric effect and it was used to make the first thermocouple.
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
