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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 54,344 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Paschen is the 388th most popular physicist (down from 342nd in 2019), the 2,162nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,714th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Paschen ranks 388 out of 717. Before him are Chester Carlson, Johann Andreas Segner, Wolfgang Ketterle, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Philip Abelson, and Louis Poinsot. After him are John Henry Poynting, Louis Paul Cailletet, Duncan Haldane, Hendrik Casimir, Leonard Susskind, and Jacob Bekenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Friedrich Paschen ranks 63. Before him are Jovan Cvijić, Bronisława Dłuska, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Rafael Merry del Val, Princess Olga Paley, and Hannah Chaplin. After him are Eugene Botkin, Hantaro Nagaoka, Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Archibald Leitch, Lucjan Żeligowski, and James Henry Breasted. Among people deceased in 1947, Friedrich Paschen ranks 83. Before him are Nicholas Murray Butler, Victor Goldschmidt, Osami Nagano, Bronisław Huberman, Karol Świerczewski, and Constantin Sănătescu. After him are William Moulton Marston, Lilly Reich, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Lucjan Żeligowski, and August Eigruber.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Paschen ranks 2,162 out of 6,142. Before him are Charles II, Duke of Brunswick (1804), Princess Antonia of Luxembourg (1899), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Jürgen Grabowski (1944), Martin Luther (1895), and Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (1527). After him are Bernhard Förster (1843), Ralf Hütter (1946), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Eduard Rüppell (1794), and Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (1773).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Friedrich Paschen ranks 58. Before him are Heinrich Geißler (1814), Paul Drude (1863), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Franz Aepinus (1724), Johanna Budwig (1908), and Wolfgang Ketterle (1957). After him are Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Walther Meissner (1882), Erich Hückel (1896), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), and Walther Gerlach (1889).

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