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Heinrich Barkhausen

1881 - 1956

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Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (2 December 1881 – 20 February 1956), born in Bremen, was a German physicist. Growing up in a patrician Bremen family, he showed interest in natural sciences from an early age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Barkhausen has received more than 37,456 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Barkhausen is the 420th most popular physicist (down from 387th in 2019), the 2,528th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,217th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 420 out of 717. Before him are Homi J. Bhabha, Federico Faggin, Yoshio Nishina, Meghnad Saha, Vladimir Fock, and John C. Mather. After him are Martin Knudsen, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Jules Jamin, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Yulii Khariton, and Walther Gerlach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 90. Before him are Titus Brandsma, Adolf Meyer, Väinö Tanner, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Eugène Schueller, and Princess Xenia of Montenegro. After him are Grigory Kotovsky, André Salmon, Madge Syers, Adolf Hühnlein, Albert Austin, and Matrona Nikonova. Among people deceased in 1956, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 90. Before him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Vladimir Obruchev, Victor Young, Walter Gieseking, Charles Joughin, and Meghnad Saha. After him are André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, Louis Rosier, Marcel Griaule, Max Beerbohm, and Mohammed Hussein Heikal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 2,528 out of 6,142. Before him are Adolf Ziegler (1892), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), Walter Krüger (1892), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Christoph Amberger (1505), and Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort (1517). After him are Dirk Nowitzki (1978), Josef Bürckel (1895), Princess Augusta of Prussia (1780), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), and Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Barkhausen ranks 62. Before him are Johanna Budwig (1908), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Walther Meissner (1882), and Erich Hückel (1896). After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Walther Gerlach (1889), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Walter Heitler (1904).

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