PHYSICIST

Jurij Vega

1754 - 1802

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Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega (also Veha; Latin: Georgius Bartholomaei Vecha; German: Georg Freiherr von Vega; born Vehovec, March 23, 1754 – September 26, 1802) was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jurij Vega has received more than 63,544 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jurij Vega is the 374th most popular physicist (up from 405th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Slovenia and the most popular Slovene Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 64k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jurij Vegas by language

Over the past year Jurij Vega has had the most page views in the with 7,578 views, followed by Slovenian (7,578), and Russian (2,173). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (151.22%), Korean (109.57%), and Egyptian Arabic (68.18%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jurij Vega ranks 374 out of 851. Before him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Carlo Matteucci, Vladimir Shukhov, Carl Wieman, and Yoshio Nishina. After him are Homi J. Bhabha, Peter Mansfield, John Mauchly, Nathan Rosen, Ralph Asher Alpher, and Georgy Flyorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Jurij Vega ranks 25. Before him are Usman dan Fodio, Jean-Antoine Marbot, Salomon Maimon, Franz Xaver von Zach, Joseph Joubert, and Pavel Tsitsianov. After him are William Murdoch, Vicente Martín y Soler, Andrea Appiani, Nikolay Rumyantsev, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, and Alejandro Malaspina. Among people deceased in 1802, Jurij Vega ranks 13. Before him are Ludovico Manin, Alexander Radishchev, Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prince Henry of Prussia, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, and Jens Juel. After him are Giuseppe Sarti, George Romney, Franz Aepinus, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, August Batsch, and Johann Gottlieb Georgi.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Jurij Vega ranks 36 out of 340. Before him are Margit Korondi (1932), Anton Ažbe (1862), Alma Karlin (1889), Anton Korošec (1872), Nino Benvenuti (1938), and Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641). After him are Srečko Katanec (1963), Leon Rupnik (1880), Franc Rode (1934), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Robert Golob (1967), and Anna of Cilli (1380).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Slovenia

Among physicists born in Slovenia, Jurij Vega ranks 1. 

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