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Franz Ernst Neumann

1798 - 1895

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Franz Ernst Neumann (11 September 1798 – 23 May 1895) was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate of inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Ernst Neumann has received more than 117,604 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Franz Ernst Neumann is the 345th most popular physicist (up from 366th in 2019), the 1,610th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,966th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Franz Ernst Neumann ranks 345 out of 851. Before him are John Stewart Bell, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Shuji Nakamura, Hans Kramers, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, and Jean-Charles de Borda. After him are Walter A. Shewhart, Leopold Infeld, William Sturgeon, Marguerite Perey, Moritz von Jacobi, and Stephen Hales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Franz Ernst Neumann ranks 14. Before him are Charles Albert of Sardinia, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Josiah Warren, František Palacký, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. After him are Alexander Gorchakov, Archduchess Clementina of Austria, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Thomas Hodgkin, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Andries Pretorius. Among people deceased in 1895, Franz Ernst Neumann ranks 24. Before him are Nikolai Leskov, Camilla Collett, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Frederick Douglass, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Lord Randolph Churchill. After him are Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Francesco Filippini, James Dwight Dana, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Charles Frederick Worth, and John Russell Hind.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Ernst Neumann ranks 1,610 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Honka (1935), Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784), Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789), Wolf Vostell (1932), Carl Oberg (1897), and Erwin Bowien (1899). After him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Philipp Lahm (1983), Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984), Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736), Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875), and Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Franz Ernst Neumann ranks 50. Before him are Friedrich Hund (1896), Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), and John B. Goodenough (1922). After him are Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Paul Drude (1863), and Wolfgang Ketterle (1957).

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