GEOLOGIST

Friedrich Mohs

1773 - 1839

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Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs ( MOHZ, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmoːs]; 29 January 1773 – 29 September 1839) was a German chemist and mineralogist. He was the creator of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Mohs has received more than 149,951 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Friedrich Mohs is the 11th most popular geologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 838th most popular biography from Germany (down from 698th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Geologist.

Friedrich Mohs is most famous for his Mohs scale of mineral hardness.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Friedrich Mohs ranks 11 out of 90. Before him are Charles Lyell, Inge Lehmann, Andrija Mohorovičić, Mary Anning, James Hutton, and Eduard Suess. After him are Francis Beaufort, Vasily Dokuchaev, Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, and Christian Leopold von Buch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Friedrich Mohs ranks 7. Before him are Louis Philippe I, Klemens von Metternich, Thomas Young, Robert Brown, William Henry Harrison, and Ludwig Tieck. After him are Aimé Bonpland, James Mill, Thérésa Tallien, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Louis I of Etruria, and Giuseppe Acerbi. Among people deceased in 1839, Friedrich Mohs ranks 5. Before him are Mahmud II, Frederick VI of Denmark, Caroline Bonaparte, and Fernando Sor. After him are Ranjit Singh, William, Duke of Nassau, Princess Marie of Orléans, Pehr Henrik Ling, William Smith, Joseph Fesch, and Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Mohs ranks 838 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Ernst Remer (1912), Bruno of Querfurt (970), Herta Oberheuser (1911), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), and Karlheinz Böhm (1928). After him are Felix Magath (1953), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Hugo Junkers (1859), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Hans Fallada (1893), and Caroline of Brunswick (1768).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Friedrich Mohs ranks 2. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880). After him are Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Julius von Haast (1822), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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