1850 - 1918
Karl Ferdinand Braun (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊ̯n] (listen); 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Ferdinand Braun has received more than 265,893 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Karl Ferdinand Braun is the 23rd most popular inventor (down from 18th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Germany (down from 154th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Inventor.
Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and inventor who is most famous for being the first person to invent the cathode-ray tube.
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Among inventors, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 23 out of 355. Before him are Cai Lun, Nicéphore Niépce, Samuel Colt, Thomas Newcomen, Werner von Siemens, and Antonio Meucci. After him are Denis Papin, George Westinghouse, Bartolomeo Cristofori, James Naismith, John Logie Baird, and Robert Fulton.
48 - 121
HPI: 80.82
Rank: 17
1765 - 1833
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 18
1814 - 1862
HPI: 79.10
Rank: 19
1663 - 1729
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 20
1816 - 1892
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 21
1808 - 1889
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 22
1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 23
1647 - 1712
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 24
1846 - 1914
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 25
1655 - 1731
HPI: 77.87
Rank: 26
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 27
1888 - 1946
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 28
1765 - 1815
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1850, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 5. Before him are Jack the Ripper, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edward Smith. After him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Mihai Eminescu, and Pierre Loti. Among people deceased in 1918, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 15. Before him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Manfred von Richthofen, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Georg Cantor, Georg Simmel, and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. After him are Otto Wagner, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, and Louis Renault.
1850 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 1
1850 - 1893
HPI: 83.67
Rank: 2
1850 - 1894
HPI: 81.38
Rank: 3
1850 - 1912
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 4
1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 5
1850 - 1937
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 6
1850 - 1891
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 7
1850 - 1932
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 8
1850 - 1909
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 9
1850 - 1935
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 10
1850 - 1889
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 11
1850 - 1923
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 12
1880 - 1918
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 9
1892 - 1918
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 10
1895 - 1918
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 11
1845 - 1918
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 12
1858 - 1918
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 13
1904 - 1918
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 14
1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 15
1841 - 1918
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 16
1878 - 1918
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 17
1872 - 1918
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 18
1899 - 1918
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 19
1897 - 1918
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 20
1843 - 1918
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 21
Among people born in Germany, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 181 out of 5,289. Before him are Werner von Siemens (1816), Levi Strauss (1829), Emmy Noether (1882), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Jacob Grimm (1785), and Edith Stein (1891). After him are Conrad III of Germany (1093), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Adolf Dassler (1900), Karl Liebknecht (1871), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776).
1816 - 1892
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 175
1829 - 1902
HPI: 78.43
Rank: 176
1882 - 1935
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 177
1729 - 1781
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 178
1785 - 1863
HPI: 78.32
Rank: 179
1891 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 180
1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 181
1093 - 1152
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 182
1887 - 1945
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 183
1900 - 1978
HPI: 78.25
Rank: 184
1871 - 1919
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 185
1880 - 1938
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 186
1776 - 1841
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 187
Among inventors born in Germany, Karl Ferdinand Braun ranks 5. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Karl Benz (1844), Nikolaus Otto (1832), and Werner von Siemens (1816). After him are Konrad Zuse (1910), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), Hans Lippershey (1570), and Joseph Pilates (1883).
1394 - 1468
HPI: 92.45
Rank: 1
1844 - 1929
HPI: 84.50
Rank: 2
1832 - 1891
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 3
1816 - 1892
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 4
1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 5
1910 - 1995
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 6
1846 - 1929
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 7
1785 - 1851
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 8
1851 - 1929
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 9
1837 - 1895
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 10
1570 - 1619
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 11
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 12