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August Beer

1825 - 1863

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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 61,067 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. August Beer is the 514th most popular physicist, the 3,401st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,166th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Physicist.

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  • 50.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, August Beer ranks 514 out of 717. Before him are Anatole Abragam, Berta Karlik, Christian Mayer, Ira Sprague Bowen, Macedonio Melloni, and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld. After him are Leopoldo Nobili, Mildred Dresselhaus, Carlo Rovelli, Robert H. Dicke, Vladimir Steklov, and Clarence Zener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, August Beer ranks 48. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, Giovanni Fattori, Đuro Daničić, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Mårten Eskil Winge, and Rafael Núñez. After him are Benedetto Cairoli, Giuseppe Prinzi, Jules Barbier, Bernardo Guimarães, Aníbal Pinto, and Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup. Among people deceased in 1863, August Beer ranks 32. Before him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Robert Gould Shaw, Edward Robinson, and Ignacio Comonfort. After him are Michel Garicoïts, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Josephine Kablick, C. L. Gloger, and Gerrit Schimmelpenninck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Beer ranks 3,401 out of 6,142. Before him are Gottfried August Homilius (1714), Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), Dominic Monaghan (1976), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Jonas Kaufmann (1969), and Franz Kaiser (1891). After him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796), and Max Noether (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, August Beer ranks 71. Before him are Rudolf Peierls (1907), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), and Otto Lehmann (1855). After him are Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Albert Betz (1885), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), and Gustav Mie (1868).

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