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Jakob II Bernoulli

1759 - 1789

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Jakob II Bernoulli (17 October 1759, Basel – 3 July 1789, Saint Petersburg), younger brother of Johann III Bernoulli, was a Swiss physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob II Bernoulli has received more than 27,185 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jakob II Bernoulli is the 504th most popular physicist (down from 491st in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 317th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 504 out of 851. Before him are Walter Heitler, Ira Sprague Bowen, Walther Ritz, Richard Mollier, Claude Pouillet, and Théophile de Donder. After him are Edwin H. Land, Gene Amdahl, Giovanni Poleni, Gustave Trouvé, Andrei Linde, and Theodore Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 29. Before him are William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Franz Krommer, James Edward Smith, Ferenc Kazinczy, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, and Matsudaira Sadanobu. After him are Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Maximilian von Montgelas, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Josepha Weber, and Cornelio Saavedra. Among people deceased in 1789, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 16. Before him are Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Paolo Renier, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Petrus Camper, and John Cleland. After him are Jafar Khan, Anders Dahl, Sayed Morad Khan, Jack Broughton, Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Paul Egede.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 320 out of 1,015. Before him are Orgetorix (null), Cuno Amiet (1868), Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), Pierre Tirard (1827), and Paul Wild (1925). After him are Maurice Bavaud (1916), Pierre Musy (1910), Gustave Ador (1845), Salomon Gessner (1730), Paul Sacher (1906), and Luigi Taveri (1929).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 11. Before him are Auguste Piccard (1884), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), and Walther Ritz (1878). After him are Alfred Kleiner (1849), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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