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Josef Stefan

1835 - 1893

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Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Stefan has received more than 138,652 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Josef Stefan is the 119th most popular mathematician (down from 115th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Austria (up from 181st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Mathematician.

Josef Stefan is most famous for his law of radiation, which states that the total power radiated by a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Josef Stefan ranks 119 out of 1,004. Before him are John Couch Adams, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Hippocrates of Chios, Meton of Athens, Theon of Alexandria, and Leonid Kantorovich. After him are Nicomachus, Alexis Clairaut, Christopher Clavius, Zu Chongzhi, Hermann Weyl, and Herbert A. Hauptman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Josef Stefan ranks 17. Before him are Giovanni Schiaparelli, Henryk Wieniawski, Giosuè Carducci, William Stanley Jevons, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. After him are Eduard Strauss, Demetrius Vikelas, Nikolai Rubinstein, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Sai Baba of Shirdi, and Iwasaki Yatarō. Among people deceased in 1893, Josef Stefan ranks 11. Before him are Patrice de MacMahon, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jan Matejko, and Edwin Booth. After him are Jules Ferry, Ernst Kummer, Baron Alexander von Bach, John Tyndall, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, and Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josef Stefan ranks 177 out of 1,424. Before him are Anton Zeilinger (1945), Hermann Oberth (1894), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Alfred Schütz (1899), and Maria Mandl (1912). After him are Alois Brunner (1912), Eric Kandel (1929), Karl Seitz (1869), Otto of Freising (1114), Mercédès Jellinek (1889), and Elizabeth of Austria (1437).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Josef Stefan ranks 2. Before him are Paul Ehrenfest (1880). After him are Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Hans Hahn (1879), Emil Artin (1898), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Karl Menger (1902), Philipp Frank (1884), Hermann Bondi (1919), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Friedrich Waismann (1896), and Hilda Geiringer (1893).

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