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Emil Lenz

1804 - 1865

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Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (; German: [lɛnts]; also Emil Khristianovich Lenz, Russian: Эмилий Христианович Ленц; 12 February 1804 – 10 February 1865), usually cited as Emil Lenz or Heinrich Lenz in some countries, was a Russian physicist of Baltic German descent who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1834. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Lenz has received more than 129,983 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Emil Lenz is the 68th most popular physicist (up from 72nd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Estonia (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Physicist.

Emil Lenz was a German physicist who discovered that when an electric current is passed through a wire, the wire becomes an electromagnet.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Lenz ranks 68 out of 717Before him are Peter Debye, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lev Landau, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Otto Stern, and Robert Andrews Millikan. After him are Roger Penrose, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Max von Laue, William Rowan Hamilton, and Carl Zeiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Emil Lenz ranks 5Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach, George Sand, Johann Strauss I, and Benjamin Disraeli. After him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Allan Kardec, Mikhail Glinka, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Richard Owen. Among people deceased in 1865, Emil Lenz ranks 6Before him are Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leopold I of Belgium, and Ignaz Semmelweis. After him are William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Heinrich Barth.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Emil Lenz ranks 3 out of 310Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684) and Alfred Rosenberg (1893). After him are Arvo Pärt (1935), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792), Konstantin Päts (1874), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Louis Kahn (1901), Lennart Meri (1929), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929), and Paul Keres (1916).

Among PHYSICISTS In Estonia

Among physicists born in Estonia, Emil Lenz ranks 1After him are Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770) and Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711).