1842 - 1934
Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876. Linde was the founder of the company now known as Linde plc but formerly known (variously) as the Linde division of Union Carbide, Linde, Linde Air Products, Praxair, and others. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl von Linde has received more than 250,628 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Carl von Linde is the 229th most popular physicist (down from 218th in 2019), the 865th most popular biography from Germany (down from 828th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Physicist.
Carl von Linde was a German engineer and inventor who is most famous for inventing the vapor-compression refrigeration system in 1876.
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Among physicists, Carl von Linde ranks 229 out of 717. Before him are Andrew Huxley, Clifford Shull, John Kendrew, Chien-Shiung Wu, Alexander Prokhorov, and John Vincent Atanasoff. After him are Nevill Francis Mott, Melvin Schwartz, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Jim Peebles, Abdus Salam, and Burton Richter.
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 223
1915 - 2001
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 224
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 225
1912 - 1997
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 226
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 227
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 228
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 229
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 230
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 231
1924 - 1998
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 232
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 233
1926 - 1996
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 234
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 235
Among people born in 1842, Carl von Linde ranks 18. Before him are Paul Lafargue, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, James Dewar, Arrigo Boito, Ambrose Bierce, and Hermann Cohen. After him are Georg Brandes, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Sophus Lie, Vasily Vereshchagin, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Jean Gaston Darboux. Among people deceased in 1934, Carl von Linde ranks 28. Before him are Louis Barthou, Augusto César Sandino, Marinus van der Lubbe, Vlado Chernozemski, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, and Jean Vigo. After him are Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Nicholas Marr, Siegbert Tarrasch, Andrei Bely, William Morris Davis, and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
1842 - 1911
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 12
1842 - 1919
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 13
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 14
1842 - 1918
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 15
1842 - 1914
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 16
1842 - 1918
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 17
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 18
1842 - 1927
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 19
1842 - 1906
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 20
1842 - 1899
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 21
1842 - 1904
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 22
1842 - 1910
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 23
1842 - 1917
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 24
1862 - 1934
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 22
1895 - 1934
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 23
1909 - 1934
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 24
1897 - 1934
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 25
1862 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 26
1905 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 27
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 28
1866 - 1934
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 29
1864 - 1934
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 30
1862 - 1934
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 31
1880 - 1934
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 32
1850 - 1934
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 33
1876 - 1934
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 34
Among people born in Germany, Carl von Linde ranks 865 out of 6,142. Before him are Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Viktor Lutze (1890), Paul Schäfer (1921), Robert Aumann (1930), Johannes Trithemius (1462), and Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862). After him are Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Moses Hess (1812), Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), and Erich Kempka (1910).
1846 - 1935
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 859
1890 - 1943
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 860
1921 - 2010
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 861
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 862
1462 - 1516
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 863
1862 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 864
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 865
1777 - 1836
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 866
1868 - 1937
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 867
1822 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 868
1812 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 869
1857 - 1943
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 870
1910 - 1975
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 871
Among physicists born in Germany, Carl von Linde ranks 33. Before him are Hans Geiger (1882), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Max Delbrück (1906). After him are Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), John B. Goodenough (1922), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Klaus Fuchs (1911), and Rainer Weiss (1932).
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 27
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 28
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 29
1913 - 1993
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 30
1928 - Present
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 31
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 32
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 33
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 34
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 35
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 37
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 38
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 39