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PHYSICIST

Hermann von Helmholtz

1821 - 1894

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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Association, the largest German association of research institutions, is named in his honour. In the fields of physiology and psychology, Helmholtz is known for his mathematics concerning the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, colour vision research, the sensation of tone, perceptions of sound, and empiricism in the physiology of perception. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann von Helmholtz has received more than 1,092,817 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann von Helmholtz is the 49th most popular physicist (down from 45th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Germany (down from 156th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Physicist.

Hermann von Helmholtz is most famous for being the first person to measure the speed of nerve impulses.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hermann von Helmholtz ranks 49 out of 717. Before him are Ernst Mach, Andrei Sakharov, Thomas Young, James Chadwick, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, and Ludwig Boltzmann. After him are Christian Doppler, Wilhelm Wien, Georges Lemaître, Philipp Lenard, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Max Born.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Hermann von Helmholtz ranks 4. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire. After him are Rudolf Virchow, Richard Francis Burton, Pafnuty Chebyshev, August Schleicher, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pauline Viardot, Lola Montez, and Louis Vuitton. Among people deceased in 1894, Hermann von Helmholtz ranks 4. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, Heinrich Hertz, and Robert Louis Stevenson. After him are Ferdinand de Lesseps, Adolphe Sax, Anton Rubinstein, Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Pafnuty Chebyshev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann von Helmholtz ranks 168 out of 6,142. Before him are Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Gottlob Frege (1848), Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882), Erich Raeder (1876), and Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850). After him are Otto Hahn (1879), Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805), Oswald Spengler (1880), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926), Erich Hartmann (1922), and Max Ernst (1891).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Hermann von Helmholtz ranks 7. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), Georg Ohm (1789), Werner Heisenberg (1901), and Heinrich Hertz (1857). After him are Max Born (1882), Otto von Guericke (1602), Max von Laue (1879), Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887).

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