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Carl von Linde

1842 - 1934

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Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered the 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 270,992 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Carl von Linde is the 280th most popular physicist (down from 229th in 2019), the 1,028th most popular biography from Germany (down from 865th in 2019) and the 41st 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

Among physicists, Carl von Linde ranks 280 out of 851. Before him are August Kundt, Carlo Rubbia, Leo Esaki, Ernest Walton, Toshihide Maskawa, and Antoine César Becquerel. After him are Osborne Reynolds, Victor Weisskopf, Walter Kohn, Anthony James Leggett, Steven Chu, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Carl von Linde ranks 24. Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin, Giovanni Giolitti, James Dewar, Ambrose Bierce, Sophus Lie, and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann. After him are Osborne Reynolds, Édouard Lucas, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean Gaston Darboux, Giovanni Boldini, and Johannes Zukertort. Among people deceased in 1934, Carl von Linde ranks 29. Before him are Louis Barthou, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Alice Liddell, Vlado Chernozemski, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, and Nicholas Marr. After him are Jean Vigo, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Siegbert Tarrasch, Andrei Bely, Franz Ehrle, and Hayim Nahman Bialik.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl von Linde ranks 1,028 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Wirth (1885), Karl Bühler (1879), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Günther Lütjens (1889), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), and Erwin Neher (1944). After him are Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Karin Schubert (1944), and John, Elector of Saxony (1468).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Carl von Linde ranks 41. Before him are Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), Rainer Weiss (1932), Max Delbrück (1906), and August Kundt (1839). After him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Friedrich Hund (1896), Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), and Ludwig Prandtl (1875).

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