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Heinrich Barkhausen

1881 - 1956

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Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (2 December 1881 – 20 February 1956) was a German physicist who established an influential research laboratory in Dresden. The phenomenon by which ferromagnetic domains align during magnetization and produce discrete acoustic changes due to rotations of the Weiss domains is named after his observations as the magnetic Barkhausen effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Barkhausen has received more than 40,308 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Barkhausen is the 515th most popular physicist (down from 420th in 2019), the 3,402nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,525th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 515 out of 851. Before him are Theodore Hall, Anatoly Alexandrov, William Edward Ayrton, Lester Germer, Alan Sokal, and John Henry Schwarz. After him are Andreas von Ettingshausen, Max Wien, Abraham Pais, Konstantin Novoselov, George Zweig, and Yakir Aharonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 116. Before him are Vlas Chubar, Jacob Israël de Haan, Nasib Yusifbeyli, Harry Hillman, Jānis Balodis, and Giuseppe Amisani. After him are Dora Boothby, Henri Le Fauconnier, Vilhelm Buhl, Curt Haase, Karl Staaf, and Móric Esterházy. Among people deceased in 1956, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 108. Before him are Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Frigyes Riesz, Stan Ockers, Leo Baeck, Paul Renner, and Norman L. Bowen. After him are Jean Hersholt, Vladimir Filatov, Corrado Alvaro, Tommy Dorsey, Mikhail Tereshchenko, and Ágnes Esterházy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 3,402 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691), Jan Ullrich (1973), Gabriel Biel (1418), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Werner Voss (1897), and Erich Weinert (1890). After him are Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), and Curt von Bardeleben (1861).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 71. Before him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Erich Hückel (1896), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Walter Heitler (1904). After him are Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Albert Betz (1885), Emil Warburg (1846), and Woldemar Voigt (1850).

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