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Adolf Martens

1850 - 1914

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Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens), 6 March 1850 in Gammelin – 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde, was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state. He also made significant contributions to the field of tribology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Martens has received more than 30,420 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Martens is the 272nd most popular inventor (down from 246th in 2019), the 3,456th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,960th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Adolf Martens ranks 272 out of 354Before him are Robert Metcalfe, David Bushnell, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Peter Madsen, Joseph Aspdin, and Lester Allan Pelton. After him are Alexander P. de Seversky, L. L. Langstroth, Edward Lawry Norton, Štefan Banič, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, and Paul von Jankó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Adolf Martens ranks 66Before him are Alfred Edwards, Aleksander Gierymski, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, and Frances Xavier Cabrini. After him are Woldemar Voigt, Augusto Righi, Gregory VII of Constantinople, Victor Laloux, Spencer Gore, and Anton Seidl. Among people deceased in 1914, Adolf Martens ranks 79Before him are Paul Mauser, Félix Bracquemond, Edward Robert Hughes, Altaf Hussain Hali, Adlai Stevenson I, and Ayub Khan. After him are Jacob Riis, Hubertine Auclert, Antun Gustav Matoš, Domenico Ferrata, Frederick Lorz, and Benedict Menni.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Martens ranks 3,456 out of 6,142Before him are Mehmet Scholl (1970), John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1596), Ulf Kirsten (1965), Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592), Hannes Löhr (1942), and Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1655). After him are Robert Hübner (1948), Rolf Hoppe (1930), Frank Schwalba-Hoth (1952), Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1683), Heymann Steinthal (1823), and Carl Blechen (1798).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Adolf Martens ranks 37Before him are Ricardo Wolf (1887), Artur Fischer (1919), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), and Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854). After him are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), Walter Bruch (1908), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), Karl Jatho (1873), and Andy Bechtolsheim (1955).