1825 - 1898
Johann Jakob Balmer (1 May 1825 – 12 March 1898) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of hydrogen atom. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Jakob Balmer has received more than 86,915 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Balmer is the 148th most popular physicist (down from 97th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 36th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Physicist.
Johann Jakob Balmer is most famous for his discovery of the hydrogen spectral series.
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Among physicists, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 148 out of 717. Before him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Felix Bloch, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans Bethe, and William Shockley. After him are Ben Roy Mottelson, Martin Lewis Perl, Rudolf Mössbauer, Hans Geiger, Peter Grünberg, and Val Logsdon Fitch.
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 142
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 143
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 144
1873 - 1916
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 145
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 146
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 147
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 148
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 149
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 150
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 151
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 152
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 153
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 154
Among people born in 1825, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 7. Before him are Johann Strauss II, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Thomas Henry Huxley, Ferdinand Lassalle, Pedro II of Brazil, and Jean-Martin Charcot. After him are Charles Garnier, Paul Kruger, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Dadabhai Naoroji, Marie of Prussia, and Eduard Hanslick. Among people deceased in 1898, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 10. Before him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Ivan Shishkin. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Newlands, Charles Garnier, Aubrey Beardsley, Félicien Rops, and Heungseon Daewongun.
1825 - 1899
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 1
1825 - 1905
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 2
1825 - 1895
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 3
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 4
1825 - 1891
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 5
1825 - 1893
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 6
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 7
1825 - 1898
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 8
1825 - 1904
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 9
1825 - 1895
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 10
1825 - 1917
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 11
1825 - 1889
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 12
1825 - 1904
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 13
1842 - 1898
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 4
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 5
1828 - 1898
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 6
1824 - 1898
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 7
1817 - 1898
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 8
1832 - 1898
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 9
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 10
1824 - 1898
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 11
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 12
1825 - 1898
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 13
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 14
1833 - 1898
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 15
1820 - 1898
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 16
Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 55 out of 876. Before him are Aga Khan IV (1936), Michel Mayor (1942), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), and Clay Regazzoni (1939). After him are H. R. Giger (1940), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Hans Küng (1928), and Walter Rudolf Hess (1881).
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 49
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 50
1556 - 1629
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 51
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 52
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 53
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 54
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 55
1940 - 2014
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 56
1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 57
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 58
1853 - 1918
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 59
1928 - 2021
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 60
1881 - 1973
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 61
Among physicists born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 5. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Auguste Piccard (1884), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), and Felix Bloch (1905). After him are K. Alex Müller (1927), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849).
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 2
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 3
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 4
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 5
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 6
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 7
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 8
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 9
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 10
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 11
1849 - 1916
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 12