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Ludvig Lorenz

1829 - 1891

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Ludvig Valentin Lorenz ( LORR-ənts; 18 January 1829 – 9 June 1891) was a Danish physicist and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludvig Lorenz has received more than 116,479 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ludvig Lorenz is the 426th most popular physicist (up from 727th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 568th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ludvig Lorenz ranks 426 out of 851. Before him are Leonard Susskind, Jacob Bekenstein, Louis Paul Cailletet, Johanna Budwig, Federico Faggin, and Saul Perlmutter. After him are Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Philip Morrison, Douglas Hofstadter, and Mildred Dresselhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Ludvig Lorenz ranks 28. Before him are Radama II, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Ivan Sechenov, N. R. Pogson, Maurice Joly, and Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail. After him are Joaquin Murrieta, Robert Nobel, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Franz Reuleaux, Allan Octavian Hume, and Konrad Duden. Among people deceased in 1891, Ludvig Lorenz ranks 50. Before him are N. R. Pogson, Aleksander Chodźko, Giovanni Morelli, Carl Nägeli, Mihail Kogălniceanu, and Prince Baudouin of Belgium. After him are Paul de Lagarde, Friedrich von Schmidt, José Manuel Balmaceda, Hannibal Hamlin, Ferdinand Gregorovius, and Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Ludvig Lorenz ranks 236 out of 1,032. Before him are Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859), Anker Jørgensen (1922), Inger Christensen (1935), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Gunnhild, Mother of Kings (910), and Sidse Babett Knudsen (1968). After him are Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922), Erik Scavenius (1877), Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Count Ingolf of Rosenborg (1940), and Christen Købke (1810).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Ludvig Lorenz ranks 4. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), Niels Bohr (1885), and Aage Bohr (1922). After him are Ole Worm (1588), Martin Knudsen (1871), Henrik Svensmark (1958), and Lene Hau (1959).

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