PHYSICIST
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
1715 - 1794
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
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
His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost is the 498th most popular physicist (down from 481st in 2019). (down from 2,215th in 2019)
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Among PHYSICISTS
Among physicists, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 498 out of 851. Before him are Toshiko Yuasa, Meghnad Saha, Augusto Righi, Heinrich Rubens, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and Emil Warburg. After him are Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Robert Serber, Charles Galton Darwin, Alfred Ewing, Eugen Goldstein, and Gaspard de Prony.
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HPI: 60.26
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HPI: 60.22
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HPI: 60.22
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Contemporaries
Among people born in 1715, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 16. Before him are Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, and Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. After him are Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Jean-Étienne Guettard, and Pedro Antonio de Cevallos. Among people deceased in 1794, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 51. Before him are Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, Nicolas Luckner, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, François Hanriot, François Joseph Westermann, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. After him are Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel, Suzanne Curchod, Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Maurice d'Elbée, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, and Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux.
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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
WRITER
1715 - 1769
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 10
Charles, Prince of Soubise
NOBLEMAN
1715 - 1787
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 11
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
ECONOMIST
1715 - 1789
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 12
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
ASTRONOMER
1715 - 1799
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 13
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1715 - 1794
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 14
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1715 - 1789
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 15
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
PHYSICIST
1715 - 1794
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 16
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
MUSICIAN
1715 - 1739
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 17
Ewald Christian von Kleist
WRITER
1715 - 1759
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 18
Jean-Étienne Guettard
BIOLOGIST
1715 - 1786
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 19
Pedro Antonio de Cevallos
POLITICIAN
1715 - 1778
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 20
Others Deceased in 1794
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Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve
POLITICIAN
1756 - 1794
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 45
Nicolas Luckner
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1722 - 1794
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 46
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1715 - 1794
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 47
François Hanriot
POLITICIAN
1761 - 1794
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 48
François Joseph Westermann
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1751 - 1794
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 49
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
WRITER
1755 - 1794
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 50
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
PHYSICIST
1715 - 1794
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 51
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel
POLITICIAN
1727 - 1794
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 52
Suzanne Curchod
WRITER
1737 - 1794
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 53
Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
NOBLEMAN
1721 - 1794
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 54
Maurice d'Elbée
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1752 - 1794
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 55
Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1729 - 1794
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 56
Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux
POLITICIAN
1767 - 1794
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 57
