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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 174,791 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Julius Plücker is the 293rd most popular mathematician (down from 288th in 2019), the 1,998th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,857th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Julius Plücker ranks 293 out of 823Before him are Peter Barlow, Yi Xing, William Jones, Hans Hahn, Jacopo Riccati, and Alan Baker. After him are Johannes Widmann, Rudolf Lipschitz, Nicholas Mercator, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Vitello, and Aristyllus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Julius Plücker ranks 30Before him are Marie Laveau, Vladimir Dal, Maria Theresa of Austria, Henri Labrouste, Zénaïde Bonaparte, and William H. Seward. After him are David Farragut, Richard Parkes Bonington, Hippolyte Bayard, Justo José de Urquiza, Fredrika Bremer, and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault. Among people deceased in 1868, Julius Plücker ranks 21Before him are Okita Sōji, Franz Berwald, Tewodros II, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, François-Édouard Picot, and Kondō Isami. After him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Rasoherina, Nakano Takeko, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Carlo Matteucci, and Venancio Flores.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Plücker ranks 1,998 out of 6,142Before him are Paul Gerhardt (1607), Lotte Reiniger (1899), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688), Gershon Kingsley (1922), and Eduard Meyer (1855). After him are Siegfried Marcus (1831), Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), Rachel Félix (1821), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia (1000), and Alfred Schmidt (1931).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Julius Plücker ranks 32Before him are Thomas Abbt (1738), Eduard Heine (1821), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), and Adolf Hurwitz (1859). After him are Nicholas Mercator (1620), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Edmund Landau (1877), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), and Gerhard Gentzen (1909).