PHYSICIST

August Beer

1825 - 1863

Photo of August Beer

Icon of person August Beer

August Beer (German: [beːɐ̯]; 31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Beer has received more than 65,659 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). August Beer is the 566th most popular physicist (down from 514th in 2019), the 3,919th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,398th in 2019) and the 78th most popular German Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, August Beer ranks 566 out of 851. Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, Emil Warburg, Woldemar Voigt, and Kenneth Bainbridge. After him are Carl August von Steinheil, Vladimir Veksler, Nicholas Kurti, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Otto Lehmann, and Gunnar Nordström.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, August Beer ranks 54. Before him are Bernardo Guimarães, Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, Rafael Núñez, Aníbal Pinto, Mårten Eskil Winge, and Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup. After him are Karl Doppler, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Emil Welti, Domingo Santa María, Simeon Bavier, and Princess Marie of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1863, August Beer ranks 39. Before him are Ludwig Emil Grimm, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Salomon Müller, and James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin. After him are Prince Frederick of Prussia, Edward Robinson, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Josephine Kablick, Andrei Mureșanu, and Alfred Moquin-Tandon.

Others Born in 1825

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1863

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Beer ranks 3,919 out of 7,253. Before him are August Böckh (1785), Udo Voigt (1952), Grete Stern (1904), Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1698), Martin Mutschmann (1879), and Julius Döpfner (1913). After him are Curt Bois (1901), Max Lange (1832), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz (1506), and Ernst Baier (1905).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, August Beer ranks 78. Before him are Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Albert Betz (1885), Emil Warburg (1846), and Woldemar Voigt (1850). After him are Otto Lehmann (1855), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Burkhard Heim (1925), and Gustav Mie (1868).

German born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous