PHYSICIST

Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost

1715 - 1794

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Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (27 November 1715 – 2 December 1794) was a German physician and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost has received more than 64,897 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost is the 480th most popular physicist (down from 475th in 2019).

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 480 out of 851. Before him are Johann Christian Poggendorff, Anatole Abragam, Max Abraham, Ole Worm, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and Emil Wiechert. After him are Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Smoluchowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, G. M. B. Dobson, and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 15. Before him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Dorothea Erxleben, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, William Watson, and Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. After him are François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, and Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1794, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 45. Before him are Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Jacques François Dugommier, François Joseph Westermann, Nicolas Luckner, and François Hanriot. After him are Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Suzanne Curchod, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel.

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