PHYSICIST

Antonius van den Broek

1870 - 1926

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Antonius Johannes van den Broek (4 May 1870 – 25 October 1926) was a Dutch mathematical economist and amateur physicist, notable for being the first who realized that the position of an element in the periodic table (now called atomic number) corresponds to the charge of its atomic nucleus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonius van den Broek has received more than 52,713 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Antonius van den Broek is the 626th most popular physicist (up from 664th in 2019), the 699th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 743rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Antonius van den Broek ranks 626 out of 851. Before him are John Lennard-Jones, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sumio Iijima, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Norris Bradbury, and Michael Green. After him are Leo Kadanoff, Walter Kaufmann, Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Kittel, Barys Kit, and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Antonius van den Broek ranks 121. Before him are José María Moncada, Jan Šrámek, Max Berg, Grigory Gershuni, Emil Młynarski, and Erik Adolf von Willebrand. After him are Yi Jun-yong, Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Verner Järvinen, John Isaac Briquet, Julián Besteiro, and R. B. Bennett. Among people deceased in 1926, Antonius van den Broek ranks 94. Before him are Dmitry Furmanov, Thomas Moran, Yervant Odian, Jan Szczepanik, Hermann Bollé, and Eliška Krásnohorská. After him are Barbara La Marr, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Patrick Leahy, Olle Lanner, Jan Kasprowicz, and Jeanna Bauck.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Antonius van den Broek ranks 699 out of 1,646. Before him are Boudewijn Zenden (1976), Leen Vente (1911), Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920), Jacob Maris (1837), Jan Lammers (1956), and Leonardus Nardus (1868). After him are Dries van der Lof (1919), Michel de Klerk (1884), Joep Lange (1954), Job Cohen (1947), Hendrik Voogd (1768), and Eddy Treijtel (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Antonius van den Broek ranks 21. Before him are Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Abraham Pais (1918), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), and Dirk Coster (1889). After him are Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Jan Burgers (1895), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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