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Eugen Goldstein

1860 - 1930

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Eugen Goldstein ( OY-gən, German: [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈɡɔlt.ʃtaɪn, ˈɔʏɡn̩ -]; 5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the hydrogen ion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugen Goldstein has received more than 446,937 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Eugen Goldstein is the 462nd most popular physicist (down from 440th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from Poland (down from 573rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Eugen Goldstein ranks 462 out of 851. Before him are Berta Karlik, William Watson, Jules Jamin, Rashid Sunyaev, Giovanni Aldini, and Christian Mayer. After him are Vikram Sarabhai, Pierre Victor Auger, Gaspard de Prony, Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, and Marie Alfred Cornu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Eugen Goldstein ranks 70. Before him are Karel Kramář, William Bates, Paul Ulrich Villard, Grandma Moses, Paul Gustav Fischer, and Albert Kahn. After him are Hugo Preuß, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Carl Anton Larsen, William Bayliss, André Prévost, and Max von Oppenheim. Among people deceased in 1930, Eugen Goldstein ranks 51. Before him are Frank P. Ramsey, Alois Jirásek, Jeppe Aakjær, Mabel Normand, Pierina Legnani, and Emil Krebs. After him are Lon Chaney, Oku Yasukata, Paul Émile Appell, Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera, Adolf Wölfli, and Robert Hennet.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eugen Goldstein ranks 585 out of 1,694. Before him are Bella Darvi (1928), Hilary Koprowski (1916), Edward Ochab (1906), Jan Sarkander (1576), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), and Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793). After him are Joachim Meisner (1933), Abraham Robinson (1918), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Franceska Mann (1917), and Otto Freundlich (1878).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Eugen Goldstein ranks 15. Before him are Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Leopold Infeld (1898), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), and Hagen Kleinert (1941). After him are Max Abraham (1875), and Hertha Sponer (1895).

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