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PHYSICIST

Antonius van den Broek

1870 - 1926

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Antonius Johannes van den Broek (4 May 1870, Zoetermeer – 25 October 1926, Bilthoven) was a Dutch amateur physicist notable for being the first who realized that the number 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 48,859 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Antonius van den Broek is the 664th most popular physicist, the 745th most popular biography from Netherlands and the 22nd most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Antonius van den Broek ranks 664 out of 717Before him are Valentine Telegdi, Arthur Schuster, Orest Khvolson, Max Tegmark, Stanley Mandelstam, and Brandon Carter. After him are Humberto Fernández-Morán, Vilho Väisälä, Julian Barbour, Ash Carter, Egon Orowan, and Pief Panofsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Antonius van den Broek ranks 132Before him are Hermann Harms, Herbert Ponting, George Eyser, Lilian Gibbs, John Marin, and Maxfield Parrish. After him are Lloyd Hildebrand, Frederick G. Donnan, DeLisle Stewart, Karel Kašpar, Jacques Cariou, and Verner Järvinen. Among people deceased in 1926, Antonius van den Broek ranks 101Before him are Charles Montagu Doughty, José María Orellana, Paul Matschie, Princess Frederica of Hanover, Mariam Thresia Chiramel, and Zofka Kveder. After him are Anatole Le Braz, Albert Corey, Emily Hobhouse, Helen Allingham, René Boylesve, and Kristján Jónsson.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Antonius van den Broek ranks 745 out of 1,427Before him are Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Louis Meijer (1809), C. George Boeree (1952), Jan Zwartkruis (1926), Marleen Gorris (1948), and Fred Rutten (1962). After him are Bas Paauwe (1911), Bep van Klaveren (1907), Pleun Strik (1944), Sef Vergoossen (1947), Hardwell (1988), and André Ooijer (1974).

Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Antonius van den Broek ranks 22Before him are Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Dirk Coster (1889), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Jan Burgers (1895), and Balthasar van der Pol (1889). After him are Abraham Pais (1918) and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).