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Agnes Pockels

1862 - 1935

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Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels (14 February 1862 – 21 November 1935) was a German chemist whose research was fundamental in establishing the modern discipline known as surface science, which describes the properties of liquid and solid surfaces and interfaces.Pockels became interested in fundamental research in surface science through observations of soaps and soapy water in her own home while washing dishes. She devised a surface film balance technique to study the behavior of molecules such as soaps and surfactants at air-liquid interfaces. From these studies, Pockels defined the "Pockels Point" which is the minimum area that a single molecule can occupy in monomolecular films.Pockels was an autodidact. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agnes Pockels has received more than 66,259 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Agnes Pockels is the 419th most popular chemist (down from 369th in 2019), the 2,902nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,388th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Agnes Pockels ranks 419 out of 509Before her are Roderick MacKinnon, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Koichi Tanaka, Kathleen Lonsdale, and Eric Betzig. After her are Anders Jahan Retzius, Donella Meadows, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Nikolay Zinin, Isabella Karle, and Edmond Frémy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Agnes Pockels ranks 97Before her are Maironis, John R. Commons, Émile Mâle, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Mykola Pymonenko, and Edward Granville Browne. After her are Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Emil von Sauer, Frank Muller, Pyotr Kozlov, Cosmo Duff-Gordon, and Theodor Fischer. Among people deceased in 1935, Agnes Pockels ranks 85Before her are Jules Cambon, Erich von Hornbostel, Oda Krohg, Childe Hassam, Sun Chuanfang, and Nina Grieg. After her are Charles Demuth, Hans Baluschek, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Pyotr Kozlov, Johannes Thiele, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Agnes Pockels ranks 2,902 out of 4,668Before her are Appius Claudius Pulcher (-300), Sergio Bertoni (1915), Vasco Pratolini (1913), Carlo Rosselli (1899), Carlo Mazzone (1937), and Margherita Maria Farnese (1664). After her are Nicola Vicentino (1511), Hieronymus of Syracuse (-231), Ciro Ferrara (1967), Ecphantus the Pythagorean (null), Gianluigi Donnarumma (1999), and Mantovani (1905).

Among CHEMISTS In Italy

Among chemists born in Italy, Agnes Pockels ranks 5Before her are Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), Giulio Natta (1903), and Ascanio Sobrero (1812).