The top 10 Physicists from Germany trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
1879 - 1955
Trending in Polish (#1), Spanish (#38), Dutch (#60), German (#87), Italian (#90), Portuguese (#101), French (#113), Arabic (#122), Hungarian...
1908 - 2003
Trending in Italian (#46) Wikipedia (1,913 views, on Oct 8).
1901 - 1976
Trending in German (#139) Wikipedia (1,718 views, on Oct 9).
This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 863 Physicists, 108 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 2nd most number of Physicists.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary German Physicists of all time. This list of famous German Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of German Physicists.
1879 - 1955
Albert Einstein is most famous for his theory of relativity. He developed the theory in 1905 and it is now one of the most important theories in modern physics. The theory states that time and space are not absolute and that they are relative to the observer. It also states that the speed of light is constant.
1845 - 1923
Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist who is most famous for discovering X-rays.
1858 - 1947
Max Planck is most famous for his work in quantum physics. He was able to show that light is not a continuous wave, but instead comes in packets of energy called quanta.
1901 - 1976
Werner Heisenberg is most famous for his uncertainty principle. This principle states that it is impossible to measure both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time.
1789 - 1854
Georg Ohm is most famous for his law of electromagnetism, which states that the voltage across a conductor is proportional to the current flowing through it.
1857 - 1894
Heinrich Hertz is most famous for proving the existence of electromagnetic waves. He was able to do this by creating a device that could produce and detect electromagnetic waves.
1882 - 1970
Max Born was a German-born physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is most famous for his work in the field of quantum mechanics.
1879 - 1960
Max von Laue was a German physicist who was most famous for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals in 1912.
1821 - 1894
Hermann von Helmholtz is most famous for being the first person to measure the speed of nerve impulses.
1874 - 1957
Johannes Stark was a German physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the "Stark effect." The Stark effect is a phenomenon in which the intensity of light is dependent on the presence of an electric field.
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