CHEMIST

Johann Josef Loschmidt

1821 - 1895

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Johann Josef Loschmidt (15 March 1821 – 8 July 1895), who mostly called himself Josef Loschmidt (omitting his first name), was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics), and crystal forms. Born in Karlsbad, a town in the Austrian Empire (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic), Loschmidt became professor of physical chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1868. He had two early mentors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Josef Loschmidt has received more than 89,541 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Johann Josef Loschmidt is the 174th most popular chemist (up from 198th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Czechia (up from 128th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Chemist.

Johann Josef Loschmidt was a German physicist who is most famous for his work on the kinetic theory of gases. He was able to show that the volume of a gas is proportional to the pressure and temperature and that the number of molecules in a gas is proportional to the volume.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 174 out of 602. Before him are Ei-ichi Negishi, Ernst Chain, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Alexander R. Todd, Ascanio Sobrero, and Sophia Brahe. After him are John Macleod, Robert F. Furchgott, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Giulio Natta, Robert W. Holley, and Richard F. Heck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 14. Before him are Elizabeth Blackwell, Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, Richard Francis Burton, and Pauline Viardot. After him are Arthur Cayley, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Andrew Kim Taegon, Anita Garibaldi, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Wilhelm Tempel. Among people deceased in 1895, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 15. Before him are Julius Lothar Meyer, José Martí, Adam Opel, Friedrich Miescher, Franz von Suppé, and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen. After him are Arthur Cayley, Carl Ludwig, Nikolai Leskov, Camilla Collett, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and Frederick Douglass.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 121 out of 1,200. Before him are Jan Švankmajer (1934), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Alfred Kubin (1877), Anne of Bohemia (1366), Zdeněk Miler (1921), and Daniel Swarovski (1862). After him are Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Franz Reichelt (1879), Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (915), Ivan Lendl (1960), Anton Reicha (1770), and Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 4. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), and Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890). After him are Otto Wichterle (1913), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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