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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert

1769 - 1824

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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (August 12, 1769 – March 7, 1824) was a German physicist and chemist, and professor of physics at the University of Leipzig. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert has received more than 22,177 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert is the 686th most popular physicist (up from 702nd in 2019), the 4,809th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,620th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 686 out of 851. Before him are John Polkinghorne, Jan Burgers, Thibault Damour, Isaak Kikoin, Robert R. Wilson, and John Iliopoulos. After him are Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Gregory Breit, Leona Woods, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Leonard Mlodinow, and Alfred Ewing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 44. Before him are George W. Campbell, Vasily Stasov, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Rose Philippine Duchesne, and Jane Marcet. After him are Mahmud Shah Durrani, DeWitt Clinton, Amelia Opie, Gaetano Savi, and Marie-Louise Lachapelle. Among people deceased in 1824, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 35. Before him are Blasius Merrem, Fyodor Alekseyev, David Bushnell, Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, and François Levaillant. After him are Lachlan Macquarie, Caesar Augustus Rodney, Mah Laqa Bai, Jonathan Dayton, Jane Taylor, and Charles Pinckney.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 4,809 out of 7,253. Before him are Dietrich Thurau (1954), Edzard Ernst (1948), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), Klaus Sammer (1942), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), and Elena Solovey (1947). After him are Zvjezdan Misimović (1982), Norbert Eder (1955), Markus Lüpertz (1941), Albrecht Becker (1906), Uli Stein (1954), and Amalie Dietrich (1821).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 92. Before him are Walter Kaufmann (1871), Alfred Landé (1888), Ralph Kronig (1904), Hans Reissner (1874), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), and Ursula Franklin (1921). After him are Gregor Wentzel (1898), Pief Panofsky (1919), Rudolf Haag (1922), Walter Gordon (1893), Ernst Ising (1900), and Arthur Schuster (1851).

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