1787 - 1826
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (; German: [ˈfraʊnˌhoːfɐ]; 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He also invented the spectroscope and developed diffraction grating. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph von Fraunhofer has received more than 340,450 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 61 in 2019). Joseph von Fraunhofer is the 103rd most popular physicist (down from 71st in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Germany (down from 280th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Physicist.
Joseph von Fraunhofer is most famous for his discovery of the dark lines in the spectrum of the sun's light. These lines are now known as Fraunhofer lines.
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Among physicists, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 103 out of 717. Before him are Edward Teller, Walther Bothe, C. V. Raman, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Alfred Kastler. After him are Kip Thorne, Henry Moseley, George Gamow, Javier Solana, Victor Francis Hess, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
1908 - 2003
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 97
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 98
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 99
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 100
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 101
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 102
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 103
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 104
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 105
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 106
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 107
1883 - 1964
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 108
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 109
Among people born in 1787, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 3. Before him are Louis Daguerre and Shaka. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, François Guizot, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Vuk Karadžić, Rasmus Rask, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, and Otto von Kotzebue. Among people deceased in 1826, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, Carl Maria von Weber, and John Adams. After him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, John VI of Portugal, Joseph Proust, Elizabeth Alexeievna, Stamford Raffles, and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 1
1787 - 1828
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 2
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 3
1787 - 1869
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 4
1787 - 1874
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 5
1787 - 1816
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 6
1787 - 1864
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 7
1787 - 1832
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 8
1787 - 1862
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 9
1787 - 1863
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 10
1787 - 1869
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 11
1787 - 1846
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 12
1743 - 1826
HPI: 89.78
Rank: 1
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 2
1735 - 1826
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 3
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 4
1746 - 1826
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 5
1745 - 1826
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 6
1781 - 1826
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 7
1767 - 1826
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 8
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 9
1779 - 1826
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 10
1781 - 1826
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 11
1755 - 1826
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 380 out of 6,142. Before him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731), Martin Behaim (1459), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Georg von Küchler (1881), and Joachim Löw (1960). After him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904), Klaus Schwab (1938), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786).
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 374
1731 - 1767
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 375
1459 - 1507
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 376
1729 - 1786
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 377
1881 - 1968
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 378
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 379
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 380
1891 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 381
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 382
1904 - 1988
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 383
1938 - Present
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 384
1833 - 1913
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 385
1786 - 1861
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 386
Among physicists born in Germany, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 18. Before him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Ernst Ruska (1906), Johannes Stark (1874), James Franck (1882), and Walther Bothe (1891). After him are J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Julius von Mayer (1814), Ernst Abbe (1840), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742).
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 12
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 13
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 14
1874 - 1957
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 15
1882 - 1964
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 16
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 17
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 18
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 19
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 20
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 22
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 23
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 24