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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 who 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 125,506 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Georg Wilhelm Richmann is the 356th most popular physicist (down from 355th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Estonian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 356 out of 851. Before him are Moritz von Jacobi, Stephen Hales, Yakov Zeldovich, Heinrich Geißler, Galileo Ferraris, and Auguste Bravais. After him are George Uhlenbeck, George Francis FitzGerald, Walter H. Schottky, Manfred von Ardenne, Gaston Planté, and Charles Fabry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 12. Before him are William IV, Prince of Orange, Barbara of Portugal, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Ablai Khan, and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine. After him are Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, William Boyce, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, and Thomas Wright. Among people deceased in 1753, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 6. Before him are George Berkeley, Balthasar Neumann, Hans Sloane, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, and Gottfried Silbermann. After him are Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Johann Nicolaus Bach, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Georg Wilhelm Richmann ranks 36 out of 351. Before him are Johan Laidoner (1884), Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622), Michael Sittow (1459), Lydia Koidula (1843), Neeme Järvi (1937), and Alexander Gorchakov (1798). After him are Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878), Bernhard Schmidt (1879), Leonid Kulik (1883), Andrus Ansip (1956), Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819), and Vaino Väljas (1931).

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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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