PHYSICIST

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

1824 - 1914

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Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (27 March 1824 – 28 November 1914) was a German physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor for understanding electrochemical reactions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Wilhelm Hittorf has received more than 65,799 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Wilhelm Hittorf is the 365th most popular physicist (down from 332nd in 2019), the 1,821st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,658th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 365 out of 851. Before him are Walter H. Schottky, Manfred von Ardenne, Gaston Planté, Charles Fabry, Abram Ioffe, and Louis Slotin. After him are Paul Drude, Maurice de Broglie, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Carlo Matteucci, and Vladimir Shukhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 27. Before him are William Walker, Jozef Israëls, Ludwig Büchner, Tokugawa Iesada, Kuno Fischer, and Francesc Pi i Margall. After him are Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Leland Stanford, Peter Cornelius, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, and Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este. Among people deceased in 1914, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 37. Before him are Joseph Swan, Anatoly Lyadov, Jurji Zaydan, Christian Morgenstern, Theodor Kittelsen, and Theodor Lipps. After him are Giuseppe Mercalli, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Julio Argentino Roca, Angelo Moriondo, Ivan Zajc, and John Henry Poynting.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 1,821 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Arndt (1555), Kathrine Switzer (1947), Elke Sommer (1940), Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Hans F. K. Günther (1891), and Gottfried von Cramm (1909). After him are Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807), Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902), Uta Hagen (1919), Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713), Regino of Prüm (842), and Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (1072).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 54. Before him are Ernst Chladni (1756), John B. Goodenough (1922), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Heinrich Geißler (1814), and Manfred von Ardenne (1907). After him are Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), and Walther Gerlach (1889).

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