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Julius Plücker

1801 - 1868

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Julius Plücker (16 June 1801 – 22 May 1868) was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Plücker has received more than 188,639 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Plücker is the 358th most popular mathematician (down from 293rd in 2019), the 2,400th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,996th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Julius Plücker ranks 358 out of 1,004. Before him are Antoine Gombaud, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Ostilio Ricci, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Emil Leon Post, and Albert Girard. After him are Madhava of Sangamagrama, Rudolf Lipschitz, Kurt Hensel, Lothar Collatz, Ivan Vinogradov, and Bruno Abakanowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Julius Plücker ranks 36. Before him are Marie Laveau, Karl Baedeker, Justo José de Urquiza, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Henri Labrouste, and Johann Nestroy. After him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Salvadore Cammarano, Fredrika Bremer, Armand Trousseau, Émile Littré, and Vincenzo Gioberti. Among people deceased in 1868, Julius Plücker ranks 29. Before him are Carlo Matteucci, Rasoherina, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Ferenc Gyulay, and Nakano Takeko. After him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Venancio Flores, Wilhelm Griesinger, Moritz Hauptmann, Dmitry Pisarev, and Peter Julian Eymard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Plücker ranks 2,400 out of 7,253. Before him are Horst Eckel (1932), Hans Litten (1903), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Johanna Budwig (1908), and William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343). After him are Arp Schnitger (1648), Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (1802), Lothar Collatz (1910), Hans Albers (1891), August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), and Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Julius Plücker ranks 41. Before him are Michael Maestlin (1550), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), and Nicholas Mercator (1620). After him are Lothar Collatz (1910), Felix Bernstein (1878), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Hans Freudenthal (1905), and Abraham Fraenkel (1891).

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