1796 - 1877
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, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 467 out of 717. Before 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.
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 461
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 462
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 463
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 464
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 465
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 466
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 467
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 468
1588 - 1654
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 469
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 470
1925 - 2006
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 471
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 472
1790 - 1868
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 473
Among people born in 1796, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 34. Before 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 32. Before 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.
1796 - 1835
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 28
1796 - 1861
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 29
1796 - 1853
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 30
1796 - 1854
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 31
1796 - 1848
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 32
1796 - 1878
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 33
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 34
1796 - 1859
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 35
1796 - 1848
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 36
1796 - 1859
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 37
1796 - 1872
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 38
1796 - 1851
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 39
1796 - 1877
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 40
1784 - 1877
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 26
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 27
1826 - 1877
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 28
1813 - 1877
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 29
1796 - 1877
HPI: 53.37
Rank: 30
1829 - 1877
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 31
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 32
1846 - 1877
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 33
1810 - 1877
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 34
1805 - 1877
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 35
1811 - 1877
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 36
1795 - 1877
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 37
1831 - 1877
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 38
Among people born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 2,983 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1813 - 1887
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 2,977
1916 - 2006
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 2,978
1848 - 1911
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 2,979
1052 - 1055
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 2,980
1827 - 1879
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,981
1496 - 1570
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,982
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,983
1040 - 1074
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,984
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 2,985
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 2,986
1603 - 1669
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 2,987
1573 - 1638
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 2,988
1495 - 1543
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 2,989
Among physicists born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 69. Before 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).
1865 - 1936
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 63
1889 - 1979
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 64
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 65
1865 - 1922
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 66
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 67
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 68
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 69
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 70
1825 - 1863
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 71
1834 - 1924
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 72
1850 - 1919
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 73
1885 - 1968
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 74
1929 - 2008
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 75