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Georg Wilhelm Richmann

1711 - 1753

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Georg Wilhelm Richmann (Russian: Георг Вильгельм Рихман; 22 July [O.S. 11 July] 1711 – 6 August [O.S. 26 July] 1753) was a Russian physicist of Baltic German origin. Richmann did pioneering work on electricity, atmospheric electricity, and calorimetry. He died by electrocution in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Wilhelm Richmann has received more than 116,088 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Georg Wilhelm Richmann is the 355th most popular physicist (down from 352nd in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Estonia (down from 31st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Estonian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 355 out of 717. Before him are George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, and Luis Walter Alvarez. After him are Walter H. Schottky, Robert B. Laughlin, Abram Ioffe, Oskar Klein, Paul Drude, and Louis Slotin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 12. Before him are Laura Bassi, Barbara of Portugal, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, and Ablai Khan. After him are Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, William Boyce, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Thomas Wright. Among people deceased in 1753, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 5. Before him are George Berkeley, Balthasar Neumann, Hans Sloane, and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. After him are Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Gottfried Silbermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Johann Nicolaus Bach, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 33 out of 310. Before him are Alexander Gorchakov (1798), Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), Neeme Järvi (1937), Jaan Kross (1920), Johan Laidoner (1884), and Siim Kallas (1948). After him are Lydia Koidula (1843), Ilon Wikland (1930), Jaan Kaplinski (1941), Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878), Bernhard Schmidt (1879), and Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Estonia

Among physicists born in Estonia, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 3. Before him are Emil Lenz (1804) and Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770).

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