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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 48,131 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Heinrich Rubens is the 440th most popular physicist (up from 444th in 2019), the 2,537th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,787th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heinrich Rubens ranks 440 out of 851. Before him are Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, and Robert W. Wood. After him are Walther Meissner, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Richard C. Tolman, Gabriele Veneziano, Meghnad Saha, and Johannes Franz Hartmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Heinrich Rubens ranks 78. Before him are J. Walter Christie, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, James Henry Breasted, Erich von Drygalski, Eduardo di Capua, and Archibald Leitch. After him are Eugene Botkin, Pēteris Stučka, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Max Heindel, Olga Boznańska, and Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil. Among people deceased in 1922, Heinrich Rubens ranks 57. Before him are Jacobus Kapteyn, Eugen Ehrlich, Alexander Antonov, Louis Duchesne, Ali Kemal, and Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha. After him are Karl Michael Ziehrer, Kamo, Joseph Oller, Michael Mayr, Arthur Griffith, and Géza Gárdonyi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Rubens ranks 2,537 out of 7,253. Before him are Barthel Beham (1502), Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230), Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), and Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829). After him are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Charlotte Buff (1753), Herms Niel (1888), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), and Julius Klaproth (1783).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Rubens ranks 63. Before him are Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johanna Budwig (1908), and Charles Galton Darwin (1887). After him are Walther Meissner (1882), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Erich Hückel (1896), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), and Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840).

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