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Ernst Mach

1838 - 1916

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Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( MAHKH, German: [ɛʁnst ˈmax]; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a Czech physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honour. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Mach has received more than 904,559 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Ernst Mach is the 43rd most popular physicist (down from 36th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Physicist.

Ernst Mach is most famous for his contributions to the field of physics. He is well known for his contributions to the study of sound and optics. He also made significant contributions to the fields of thermodynamics and mechanics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernst Mach ranks 43 out of 717. Before him are Léon Foucault, Lise Meitner, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Wolfgang Pauli, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. After him are Andrei Sakharov, Thomas Young, James Chadwick, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Hermann von Helmholtz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Ernst Mach ranks 3. Before him are John Wilkes Booth and Georges Bizet. After him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Franz Brentano, Tobias Asser, Luís I of Portugal, Jan Matejko, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Ernest Solvay, and Émile Loubet. Among people deceased in 1916, Ernst Mach ranks 4. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria, Grigori Rasputin, and Jack London. After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Yuan Shikai, Umberto Boccioni, Élie Metchnikoff, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, and William Ramsay.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Ernst Mach ranks 20 out of 973. Before him are Ferdinand Porsche (1875), Miloš Forman (1932), Alphonse Mucha (1860), Karel Čapek (1890), John of Nepomuk (1350), and Joseph Schumpeter (1883). After him are Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Zeman (1944), and Edvard Beneš (1884).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Czechia

Among physicists born in Czechia, Ernst Mach ranks 1. After him are Peter Grünberg (1939), Christian Mayer (1719), Franz Josef Gerstner (1756), and Emil Wolf (1922).

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