1814 - 1878
Julius Robert von Mayer (25 November 1814 – 20 March 1878) was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics, namely that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed". In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius von Mayer has received more than 174,258 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Julius von Mayer is the 112th most popular physicist (up from 138th in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Germany (up from 515th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Physicist.
Julius von Mayer is most famous for his discovery of the law of the conservation of energy.
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Among physicists, Julius von Mayer ranks 112 out of 717. Before him are George Gamow, Javier Solana, Victor Francis Hess, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, J. Hans D. Jensen, and Edward Victor Appleton. After him are Anders Jonas Ångström, George Paget Thomson, Ernst Abbe, Aage Bohr, Auguste Piccard, and Heinrich Rohrer.
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
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 110
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 111
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 112
1814 - 1874
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 113
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 114
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 115
1922 - 2009
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 116
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 117
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 118
Among people born in 1814, Julius von Mayer ranks 8. Before him are Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Samuel Colt, Mikhail Lermontov, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Adolphe Sax. After him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, Jenny von Westphalen, James Joseph Sylvester, and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours. Among people deceased in 1878, Julius von Mayer ranks 7. Before him are Pope Pius IX, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Claude Bernard, and Joseph Henry. After him are Charles-François Daubigny, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, George V of Hanover, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Nikolay Nekrasov.
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 2
1814 - 1861
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 3
1814 - 1862
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 4
1814 - 1841
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 5
1814 - 1879
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 6
1814 - 1894
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 7
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 8
1814 - 1874
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 9
1814 - 1890
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 10
1814 - 1864
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 12
1814 - 1897
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 13
1814 - 1896
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 14
1792 - 1878
HPI: 78.08
Rank: 1
1820 - 1878
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 2
1802 - 1878
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 3
1843 - 1878
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 4
1813 - 1878
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 5
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 6
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 7
1817 - 1878
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 8
1806 - 1878
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 9
1819 - 1878
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 10
1795 - 1878
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 11
1812 - 1878
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 12
1821 - 1878
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Julius von Mayer ranks 416 out of 6,142. Before him are Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870), Christian V of Denmark (1646), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Lothar Matthäus (1961), and Friedrich Bessel (1784). After him are Frederica of Hanover (1917), Caroline of Baden (1776), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Hans Krebs (1898), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928).
1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 410
1870 - 1949
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 411
1646 - 1699
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 412
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 413
1961 - Present
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 414
1784 - 1846
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 415
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 416
1917 - 1981
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 417
1776 - 1841
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 418
1758 - 1840
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 419
1898 - 1945
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 420
1864 - 1918
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 421
1928 - 2007
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 422
Among physicists born in Germany, Julius von Mayer ranks 20. Before him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Johannes Stark (1874), James Franck (1882), Walther Bothe (1891), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), and J. Hans D. Jensen (1907). After him are Ernst Abbe (1840), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929).
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 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 22
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 23
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 24
1873 - 1916
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 25
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 26