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Heinrich Rubens

1865 - 1922

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Heinrich Rubens (30 March 1865, Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau – 17 July 1922, Berlin, Germany) was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Rubens has received more than 44,946 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Heinrich Rubens is the 444th most popular physicist (up from 458th in 2019), the 2,790th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,742nd in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heinrich Rubens ranks 444 out of 717Before him are Bruno Rossi, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Eugen Goldstein, Richard Mollier, G. M. B. Dobson, and Ivan Puluj. After him are Grote Reber, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Jacques Babinet, William Robert Grove, Hiroshi Amano, and Walther Ritz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Heinrich Rubens ranks 88Before him are Aspazija, Tan Sitong, Afonso, Duke of Porto, Karl Blossfeldt, Louis Zutter, and Maciej Sulkiewicz. After him are Isaac Israëls, Josef Fischer, Edgar Aabye, Albéric Magnard, Emma Eckstein, and Epitácio Pessoa. Among people deceased in 1922, Heinrich Rubens ranks 64Before him are Kamo, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Henri Brocard, Dimitrios Gounaris, and Jules Guesde. After him are Viktor Kingissepp, Michael Mayr, Luigi Denza, Ricardo Flores Magón, Max Abraham, and Christiaan de Wet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Rubens ranks 2,790 out of 6,142Before him are Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (1486), Anton Flettner (1885), Otl Aicher (1922), and Otto Schott (1851). After him are Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Albert of Aix (1060), Fritz Busch (1890), Eugen Meindl (1892), and Peter Lely (1618).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Rubens ranks 66Before him are Walther Meissner (1882), Erich Hückel (1896), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Walther Gerlach (1889), and Rudolf Peierls (1907). After him are Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Otto Lehmann (1855), August Beer (1825), and Georg Hermann Quincke (1834).