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Eugen Goldstein

1860 - 1930

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Eugen Goldstein (; 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 425,443 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugen Goldstein is the 440th most popular physicist (down from 347th in 2019), the 573rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 361st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Eugen Goldstein ranks 440 out of 717. Before him are Gaspard de Prony, Saul Perlmutter, Giovanni Battista Amici, Emil Wiechert, Bruno Rossi, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille. After him are Richard Mollier, G. M. B. Dobson, Ivan Puluj, Heinrich Rubens, Grote Reber, and Friedrich Kohlrausch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Eugen Goldstein ranks 66. Before him are Simon Dubnow, Albert Kahn, Katō Takaaki, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Paul Gustav Fischer, and Carl Anton Larsen. After him are Karel Kramář, Paul Ulrich Villard, Joan Maragall, Edward MacDowell, Ottó Bláthy, and William Bayliss. Among people deceased in 1930, Eugen Goldstein ranks 56. Before him are Paul Émile Appell, Mabel Normand, Adolf Wölfli, Abram Arkhipov, Pierina Legnani, and Oskar Nedbal. After him are Richard Wilhelm, Władysław Horodecki, Isidor Gunsberg, Paul Levi, Jeppe Aakjær, and Glenn Curtiss.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eugen Goldstein ranks 573 out of 1,454. Before him are Max Fleischer (1883), Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1801), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), John Albert Vasa (1612), Szymon Winawer (1838), and Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1549). After him are Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Krzysztof Wielicki (1950), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Otto Freundlich (1878), and Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Eugen Goldstein ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Rotblat (1908), Leopold Infeld (1898), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), and Hagen Kleinert (1941). After him are Max Abraham (1875) and Hertha Sponer (1895).

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