1715 - 1794
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 58,340 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost is the 475th most popular physicist (up from 499th in 2019).
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Among physicists, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 475 out of 717. Before him are Ole Worm, Raoul Pictet, Yuval Ne'eman, Takaaki Kajita, Claude Pouillet, and Vilhelm Bjerknes. After him are John Leslie, Anatoly Alexandrov, Konstantin Novoselov, Maurice Karnaugh, William Stanley Jr., and Pierre Victor Auger.
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
1862 - 1951
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 474
1715 - 1794
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 475
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 476
1903 - 1994
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 477
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 478
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 479
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 480
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 481
Among people born in 1715, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 15. Before him are William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, and Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. After him are François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Jean-Étienne Guettard, and Pedro Antonio de Cevallos. Among people deceased in 1794, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 49. Before him are Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Anacharsis Cloots, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel, Suzanne Curchod, and François Hanriot. After him are Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Maurice d'Elbée, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Antonio Rinaldi, and Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing.
1715 - 1787
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 9
1715 - 1762
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 10
1715 - 1787
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 11
1715 - 1769
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 12
1715 - 1799
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 13
1715 - 1789
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 14
1715 - 1794
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 15
1715 - 1794
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 16
1715 - 1759
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 17
1715 - 1786
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 18
1715 - 1778
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 19
1738 - 1794
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 43
1721 - 1794
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 44
1755 - 1794
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 45
1727 - 1794
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 46
1737 - 1794
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 47
1761 - 1794
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 48
1715 - 1794
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 49
1755 - 1794
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 50
1752 - 1794
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 51
1748 - 1794
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 52
1715 - 1794
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 53
1709 - 1794
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 54
1729 - 1794
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 55