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Friedrich Paschen

1865 - 1947

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Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen (22 January 1865 – 25 February 1947) was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908. He established the now widely used Paschen curve in his article "Über die zum Funkenübergang in Luft, Wasserstoff und Kohlensäure bei verschiedenen Drücken erforderliche Potentialdifferenz". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Paschen has received more than 58,589 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Friedrich Paschen is the 392nd most popular physicist (down from 388th in 2019), the 2,099th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,160th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Paschen ranks 392 out of 851. Before him are Robert Brout, Louis Poinsot, Wolfgang Ketterle, George Johnstone Stoney, John Henry Poynting, and Franz Aepinus. After him are Léon Brillouin, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Edward Witten, Takaaki Kajita, Samuel Goudsmit, and Hantaro Nagaoka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Friedrich Paschen ranks 62. Before him are Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Andrey Sheptytsky, Lucjan Żeligowski, Bronisława Dłuska, Anandi Gopal Joshi, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Hantaro Nagaoka, Said Halim Pasha, Rafael Merry del Val, Aspazija, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, and Prince Kan'in Kotohito. Among people deceased in 1947, Friedrich Paschen ranks 80. Before him are Heinrich Schwarz, William Moulton Marston, Lucjan Żeligowski, Wolfgang Borchert, Grace Moore, and Victor Goldschmidt. After him are Karol Świerczewski, Nicholas Murray Butler, Lilly Reich, Sándor Garbai, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, and Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Paschen ranks 2,099 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Juskowiak (1926), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), Wolfgang of Regensburg (924), Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Hans Poelzig (1869), and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837). After him are İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Bodo Illgner (1967), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Johann Trollmann (1907), and Alfred Hettner (1859).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Friedrich Paschen ranks 58. Before him are Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), and Franz Aepinus (1724). After him are Rudolf Peierls (1907), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johanna Budwig (1908), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Heinrich Rubens (1865), and Walther Meissner (1882).

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