PHYSICIST

Georg Adolf Erman

1806 - 1877

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Georg Adolf Erman (12 May 1806 – 12 July 1877) was a German physicist. Erman was born in Berlin as the son of Paul Erman. He studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise um die Erde durch Nordasien und die beiden Ozeane (1833-1848). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Adolf Erman has received more than 13,200 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Adolf Erman is the 592nd most popular physicist (down from 563rd in 2019), the 4,138th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,702nd in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Physicist.

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Over the past year Georg Adolf Erman has had the most page views in the with 1,499 views, followed by Russian (1,357), and German (1,021). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (81.05%), Romanian (79.72%), and Swedish (47.23%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 592 out of 851. Before him are William D. Coolidge, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sergey Kapitsa, John Robison, and Prosper-René Blondlot. After him are Wallace Clement Sabine, Clyde Cowan, Joan Feynman, Seth Neddermeyer, Bruno Zumino, and Toshiko Yuasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 43. Before him are Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Julius Weisbach, Friedrich Welwitsch, Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, and Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg. After him are Michele Amari, Ivan Kireyevsky, Julius Hübner, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and George Newbold Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1877, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 49. Before him are Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Caroline Unger, Fernán Caballero, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Jung Bahadur Rana. After him are Janko Matúška, Alexander Bain, Julius Rietz, Robert Swinhoe, Juan Bautista Gill, and Johann Carl Fuhlrott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 4,138 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1737), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1832), Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg (1584), Princess Frederica of Hanover (1848), and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778). After him are Bodo Ramelow (1956), Paul Götz (1883), Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1697), Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal (1730), Therese Giehse (1898), and Frederic Lewy (1885).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 81. Before him are Albert Betz (1885), Emil Warburg (1846), Woldemar Voigt (1850), August Beer (1825), Otto Lehmann (1855), and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826). After him are Heinrich Kayser (1853), Burkhard Heim (1925), Gustav Mie (1868), Walther Müller (1905), Walter Kaufmann (1871), and Alfred Landé (1888).

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