PHYSICIST

Carl August von Steinheil

1801 - 1870

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Carl August von Steinheil (12 October 1801 – 14 September 1870) was a German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl August von Steinheil has received more than 40,885 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carl August von Steinheil is the 568th most popular physicist (down from 555th in 2019), the 3,856th most popular biography from France (down from 3,674th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 568 out of 851. Before him are Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, Emil Warburg, Woldemar Voigt, Kenneth Bainbridge, and August Beer. After him are Vladimir Veksler, Nicholas Kurti, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Otto Lehmann, Gunnar Nordström, and James David Forbes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 59. Before him are Hippolyte Carnot, Jan Kalivoda, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, and Édouard Lartet. After him are Evangelos Damaskos, Atanasio Aguirre, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, José Joaquín Pérez, Carlo Cattaneo, and František Škroup. Among people deceased in 1870, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 47. Before him are Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Louise Lehzen, Alexei Lvov, James Young Simpson, Michael William Balfe, and Christian Albrecht Jensen. After him are Johann Heinrich Blasius, Franz Unger, Carlos Soublette, Imre Frivaldszky, Joséphine Fodor, and Moshoeshoe I.

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In France

Among people born in France, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 3,856 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Farman (1877), Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928), Tonie Marshall (1951), Luc-Olivier Merson (1846), Jean Bouin (1888), and Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810). After him are Valérie Lemercier (1964), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Gaël Monfils (1986), Alain Cavalier (1931), Conan II, Duke of Brittany (1030), and Gaston Alibert (1878).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 62. Before him are Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jacques Babinet (1794), Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), and Pierre Weiss (1865). After him are Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Jean Becquerel (1878), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Marcel Brillouin (1854), and Ferdinand Monoyer (1836).

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