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Johann Christian Poggendorff

1796 - 1877

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Johann Christian Poggendorff (29 December 1796 – 24 January 1877), was a German physicist born in Hamburg. By far the greater and more important part of his work related to electricity and magnetism. Poggendorff is known for his electrostatic motor which is analogous to Wilhelm Holtz's electrostatic machine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Christian Poggendorff has received more than 45,678 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Johann Christian Poggendorff is the 467th most popular physicist (down from 449th in 2019), the 2,983rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,698th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 467 out of 717Before him are Max Abraham, Marian Smoluchowski, Joseph Larmor, John Henry Schwarz, Robert Brout, and John Canton. After him are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Ole Worm, Raoul Pictet, Yuval Ne'eman, Takaaki Kajita, and Claude Pouillet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 34Before him are August von Platen-Hallermünde, John Stevens Henslow, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, and Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao. After him are Walter Hunt, Francis Crozier, William H. Prescott, George Catlin, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, and Fernán Caballero. Among people deceased in 1877, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 32Before him are Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Philipp Veit, Walter Bagehot, Pōmare IV, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, and José de Alencar. After him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Alexandre Herculano, Alexander Braun, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, and Johann von Herbeck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 2,983 out of 6,142Before him are Moritz Wagner (1813), Jurij Brězan (1916), Fritz von Uhde (1848), Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (1052), Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1827), and Johann Walter (1496). After him are Herman I of Baden (1040), Theo Jörgensmann (1948), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), Johannes Cocceius (1603), George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1573), and Melchior Hoffman (1495).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 69Before him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Walther Gerlach (1889), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Walter Heitler (1904). After him are Otto Lehmann (1855), August Beer (1825), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Albert Betz (1885), and Jürgen Ehlers (1929).