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Emil Wiechert

1861 - 1928

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Emil Johann Wiechert (26 December 1861 – 19 March 1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Wiechert has received more than 57,442 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Emil Wiechert is the 479th most popular physicist (down from 437th in 2019), the 1,046th most popular biography from Russia (down from 936th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Wiechert ranks 479 out of 851. Before him are Clarence Zener, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Anatole Abragam, Max Abraham, Ole Worm, and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. After him are Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Smoluchowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and G. M. B. Dobson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Emil Wiechert ranks 78. Before him are Frederick Jackson Turner, Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Auguste Vaillant, and Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Carl Moll, Bhikaiji Cama, Zinaida Yusupova, Félix Fénéon, Prafulla Chandra Ray, and Karl Groos. Among people deceased in 1928, Emil Wiechert ranks 56. Before him are Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Medardo Rosso, Larry Semon, Hermann Sudermann, and Robert Lansing. After him are Frank Dicksee, Enrico Cecchetti, Alexander Spendiaryan, Anita Berber, Arnold Rothstein, and Moritz von Auffenberg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Emil Wiechert ranks 1,046 out of 3,761. Before him are Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Denis Davydov (1784), and Max Vasmer (1886). After him are Tini Beg (1341), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Irina Shayk (1986), Alexander Guchkov (1862), Eleanor of Prussia (1583), and Innocent of Alaska (1797).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Emil Wiechert ranks 26. Before him are Yulii Khariton (1904), Anatoli Bugorski (1942), Vladimir Fock (1898), George Volkoff (1914), Boris Podolsky (1896), and Pyotr Lebedev (1866). After him are Yuri Orlov (1924), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Andrei Linde (1948), Max Wien (1866), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), and George Zweig (1937).

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