1773 - 1839
Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs (German: [moːs]; 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 138,955 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Friedrich Mohs is the 10th most popular geologist (down from 5th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from Germany (down from 505th 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, Friedrich Mohs ranks 10 out of 59. Before him are Charles Lyell, Mary Anning, Inge Lehmann, Milutin Milanković, James Hutton, and Andrija Mohorovičić. After him are Eduard Suess, Francis Beaufort, Vasily Dokuchaev, Beno Gutenberg, Abraham Gottlob Werner, and William Smith.
1797 - 1875
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 4
1799 - 1847
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 5
1888 - 1993
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 6
1879 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 7
1726 - 1797
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 8
1857 - 1936
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 9
1773 - 1839
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 10
1831 - 1914
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 11
1774 - 1857
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 12
1846 - 1903
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 13
1889 - 1960
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 14
1749 - 1817
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 15
1769 - 1839
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1773, Friedrich Mohs ranks 7. Before him are Klemens von Metternich, Louis Philippe I, Thomas Young, Robert Brown, William Henry Harrison, and Ludwig Tieck. After him are James Mill, Louis I of Etruria, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, Aimé Bonpland, Thérésa Tallien, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. 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 William, Duke of Nassau, Ranjit Singh, William Smith, Princess Marie of Orléans, Pehr Henrik Ling, Charlotte Bonaparte, and Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia.
1773 - 1859
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 1
1773 - 1850
HPI: 77.88
Rank: 2
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 3
1773 - 1858
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 4
1773 - 1841
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 5
1773 - 1853
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 6
1773 - 1839
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 7
1773 - 1836
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 8
1773 - 1803
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 9
1773 - 1832
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 10
1773 - 1858
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 11
1773 - 1835
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 12
1773 - 1842
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 13
1785 - 1839
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 1
1768 - 1839
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 2
1782 - 1839
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 3
1778 - 1839
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 4
1773 - 1839
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 5
1792 - 1839
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 6
1780 - 1839
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 7
1769 - 1839
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 8
1813 - 1839
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 9
1776 - 1839
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 10
1802 - 1839
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 11
1819 - 1839
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Mohs ranks 698 out of 6,142. Before him are Sandra (1962), Juana Bormann (1893), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Wilhelm Marx (1863), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), and Max Reger (1873). After him are Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Peter Kürten (1883), Hans von Bülow (1830), and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811).
1962 - Present
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 692
1893 - 1945
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 693
1774 - 1837
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 694
1863 - 1946
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 695
1919 - 1942
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 696
1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 697
1773 - 1839
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 698
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 699
1697 - 1773
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 700
1480 - 1562
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 701
1883 - 1931
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 702
1830 - 1894
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 703
1811 - 1890
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 704
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), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Julius von Haast (1822), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), and Oskar Lenz (1848).
1880 - 1930
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 1
1773 - 1839
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 2
1889 - 1960
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 3
1774 - 1853
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 4
1797 - 1873
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 5
1822 - 1887
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 6
1838 - 1912
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 7
1848 - 1925
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 8