PHYSICIST

Ernst Chladni

1756 - 1827

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Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (UK: , US: , German: [ɛʁnst ˈfloːʁɛns ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈkladniː]; 30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Chladni has received more than 550,320 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ernst Chladni is the 318th most popular physicist (down from 291st in 2019), the 1,355th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,251st in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernst Chladni ranks 318 out of 851. Before him are Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John Robert Schrieffer, Jan Ingenhousz, Ludwig Prandtl, Fritjof Capra, and Robert B. Laughlin. After him are William Whewell, John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, Henri Pitot, Samuel C. C. Ting, and Thomas Johann Seebeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Ernst Chladni ranks 9. Before him are Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, William Godwin, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Aaron Burr, and Bernard Germain de Lacépède. After him are Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Joseph Martin Kraus, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, and Wojciech Żywny. Among people deceased in 1827, Ernst Chladni ranks 12. Before him are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Wilhelm Hauff, Maria Theresa of Austria, George Canning, and Ugo Foscolo. After him are Samuel Crompton, Wilhelm Müller, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Georgios Karaiskakis, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, and Robert Surcouf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Chladni ranks 1,355 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Thomas Abbt (1738), Heinz Linge (1913), and Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748). After him are Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), Otto Rasch (1891), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), and Bernhard Rust (1883).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ernst Chladni ranks 48. Before him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Friedrich Hund (1896), Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), and Ludwig Prandtl (1875). After him are John B. Goodenough (1922), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824).

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