ASTRONOMER

Ludwig Biermann

1907 - 1986

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Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann (March 13, 1907 in Hamm – January 12, 1986 in München) was a German astronomer, obtaining his Ph.D. from Göttingen University in 1932. He made important contributions to astrophysics and plasma physics, discovering the Biermann battery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Biermann has received more than 22,539 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Biermann is the 406th most popular astronomer (down from 388th in 2019), the 4,421st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,009th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ludwig Biermann ranks 406 out of 644. Before him are Paris Pişmiş, Richard Schorr, Harry Edwin Wood, Paul W. Merrill, Lyudmila Karachkina, and Frank Elmore Ross. After him are Elizabeth Roemer, Otto Heckmann, Hugo Gyldén, Grigory Shajn, Harold Spencer Jones, and Harold D. Babcock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ludwig Biermann ranks 255. Before him are Kinue Hitomi, Sven Andersson, Antonín Vodička, Vasja Pirc, Fritz Wotruba, and Martín Marculeta. After him are John McIntire, Ramón de la Fuente Leal, Sigmund Ruud, Roger Blin, Earl Tupper, and Ramón Guzmán. Among people deceased in 1986, Ludwig Biermann ranks 187. Before him are Michal Vičan, Guillermo Eizaguirre, Floyd Gottfredson, Kunio Maekawa, Aleksei Arbuzov, and Hyman G. Rickover. After him are Leif Erickson, Reinhold Münzenberg, Jacques Plante, André Tassin, Herbert Runge, and Eino Leino.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Biermann ranks 4,421 out of 7,253. Before him are Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914), Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Hilde Domin (1909), Norbert Haug (1952), Fritz Graebner (1877), and Klaus Bonsack (1941). After him are Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775), John Ericson (1926), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel (1768), Joseph Wendel (1901), and Fritz Schäffer (1888).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Ludwig Biermann ranks 61. Before him are Brian G. Marsden (1937), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), Julius Schiller (1580), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), and Richard Schorr (1867). After him are Otto Heckmann (1901), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Gustav Spörer (1822), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), and Gottfried Kirch (1639).

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