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Christian Doppler

1803 - 1853

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Christian Andreas Doppler (; 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Doppler has received more than 441,368 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Christian Doppler is the 49th most popular physicist (up from 50th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Austria (up from 59th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Physicist.

Christian Doppler is most famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect is the change in frequency and wavelength of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Christian Doppler ranks 49 out of 851. Before him are Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Philipp Lenard, William Gilbert, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, and Léon Foucault. After him are Barry Barish, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Wilhelm Wien, Ernst Mach, and Gabriel Lippmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Christian Doppler ranks 2. Before him is Hector Berlioz. After him are Prosper Mérimée, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Justus von Liebig, Adolphe Adam, Maria Anna of Savoy, Albrecht von Roon, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Gottfried Semper, Flora Tristan, and Fyodor Tyutchev. Among people deceased in 1853, Christian Doppler ranks 1. After him are François Arago, Maria II of Portugal, Ludwig Tieck, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Christian Leopold von Buch, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Christian Doppler ranks 47 out of 1,424. Before him are Alois Hitler (1837), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), Lise Meitner (1878), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415). After him are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Hedy Lamarr (1914), Otto von Habsburg (1912), Otto Skorzeny (1908), Karl Landsteiner (1868), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Christian Doppler ranks 4. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), and Lise Meitner (1878). After him are Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Walter Kohn (1923), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Marietta Blau (1894).

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