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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 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

Among physicists, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 475 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost ranks 15Before 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 49Before 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.

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