1821 - 1895
Johann Josef Loschmidt (15 March 1821 – 8 July 1895), who mostly called himself Josef Loschmidt (omitting his first name), was a notable 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 83,139 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Josef Loschmidt is the 198th most popular chemist (down from 169th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 121st 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, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 198 out of 509. Before him are Ahmed Zewail, Otto Wichterle, Johann Deisenhofer, F. Sherwood Rowland, Michael Levitt, and Archer Martin. After him are John Fenn, Robert H. Grubbs, William Standish Knowles, Peter D. Mitchell, Robert Curl, and Giulio Natta.
1946 - 2016
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 192
1913 - 1998
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 193
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 194
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 195
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 196
1910 - 2002
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 197
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 198
1917 - 2010
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 199
1942 - 2021
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 200
1917 - 2012
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 201
1920 - 1992
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 202
1933 - 2022
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 203
1903 - 1979
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 204
Among people born in 1821, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 22. Before him are Nathan Bedford Forrest, Heinrich Barth, Andrew Kim Taegon, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Wilhelm Tempel. After him are Giovanni Bottesini, Sebastian Kneipp, Anita Garibaldi, Ernst Engel, Eduard Heine, and Henry Thomas Buckle. Among people deceased in 1895, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Miescher, Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Arthur Cayley, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and Frederick Douglass. After him are Nikolai Leskov, Lord Randolph Churchill, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, John Russell Hind, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, and Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel.
1821 - 1877
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 16
1821 - 1865
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 17
1821 - 1846
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 18
1821 - 1881
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 19
1821 - 1878
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 20
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 21
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 22
1821 - 1889
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 23
1821 - 1897
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 24
1821 - 1849
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 25
1821 - 1896
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 26
1821 - 1881
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 27
1821 - 1862
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 28
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 12
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 13
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 14
1821 - 1895
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 15
1825 - 1895
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 16
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 17
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 18
1831 - 1895
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 19
1849 - 1895
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 20
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 21
1823 - 1895
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 22
1810 - 1895
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 23
1814 - 1895
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 24
Among people born in Czechia, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 128 out of 973. Before him are Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), Otto Wichterle (1913), Jan Kubiš (1913), Jan Neruda (1834), and Milada Horáková (1901). After him are Josef Mysliveček (1737), Bretislav I (1005), Eduard Hanslick (1825), Julius Fučík (1872), Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110), and Cosmas of Prague (1045).
1211 - 1282
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 122
1909 - 1990
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 123
1913 - 1998
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 124
1913 - 1942
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 125
1834 - 1891
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 126
1901 - 1950
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 127
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 128
1737 - 1781
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 129
1005 - 1055
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 130
1825 - 1904
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 131
1872 - 1916
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 132
1110 - 1174
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 133
1045 - 1125
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 134
Among chemists born in Czechia, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 4. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), and Otto Wichterle (1913). After him are Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 1
1896 - 1984
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 2
1913 - 1998
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 3
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 4
1890 - 1967
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 5
1848 - 1926
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 6
1889 - 1935
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 7
1850 - 1910
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 8
1949 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 9