PHYSICIST

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 49,718 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Johann Christian Poggendorff is the 475th most popular physicist (down from 467th in 2019), the 2,901st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,980th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 475 out of 851. Before him are Marie Alfred Cornu, Dennis W. Sciama, John Kerr, Jacques Babinet, Pyotr Lebedev, and Clarence Zener. After him are Anatole Abragam, Max Abraham, Ole Worm, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Emil Wiechert, and Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 31. Before him are Carl Ludwig Blume, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Ernst Claus, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Walter Hunt, and John Stevens Henslow. After him are Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, Horace Mann, and Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1877, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 31. Before him are Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Walter Bagehot, Pōmare IV, and Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Alexandre Herculano, Louise Bertin, Alexander Braun, Charles Wilkes, José de Alencar, and Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 2,901 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Preuß (1860), Christiane Kubrick (1932), Heinrich Kiepert (1818), Wolfgang Preiss (1910), Adolf Ziegler (1892), and Friedrich Meinecke (1862). After him are Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676), Johann Fust (1400), Johann Kremer (1883), Wilhelm Batz (1916), Armin Laschet (1961), and Werner Goldberg (1919).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 67. Before him are Johanna Budwig (1908), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walther Meissner (1882), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), and Erich Hückel (1896). After him are Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), and Jürgen Ehlers (1929).

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