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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 20,818 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Biermann is the 388th most popular astronomer (down from 342nd in 2019), the 4,020th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,460th in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ludwig Biermann ranks 388 out of 531. Before him are Henry E. Holt, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Zdeňka Vávrová, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Gottfried Kirch, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama. After him are Brian Schmidt, William Christie, Tsutomu Seki, Bart Bok, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Jill Tarter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ludwig Biermann ranks 236. Before him are Germán Suárez Flamerich, Tommy Hampson, Antonín Vodička, Andrei Glanzmann, Henk Badings, and Eugène Chaboud. After him are Heikki Savolainen, Georg Braun, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Dan Duryea, Ramón Guzmán, and Jacques Roumain. Among people deceased in 1986, Ludwig Biermann ranks 175. Before him are Tommy Douglas, André Tassin, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Jaroslav Burgr, Ronald McNair, and Thad Jones. After him are D. R. Kaprekar, Neerja Bhanot, Lothar Bolz, Kunio Maekawa, Hyman G. Rickover, and Floyd Gottfredson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Biermann ranks 4,020 out of 6,142. Before him are Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Jacob Hübner (1761), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Helmut Käutner (1908), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), and Franz Babinger (1891). After him are Axel von dem Bussche (1919), Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928), Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Rolf Singer (1906), Theodor Curtius (1857), and Walther Müller (1905).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Ludwig Biermann ranks 59. Before him are Joseph Helffrich (1890), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Paul Götz (1883), Otto Heckmann (1901), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), and Gottfried Kirch (1639). After him are Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Richard Schorr (1867), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), and Alfred Bohrmann (1904).

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