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PHYSICIST

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 20,678 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert is the 702nd most popular physicist, the 4,634th most popular biography from Germany and the 93rd most popular German Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 702 out of 717Before him are Harvey Fletcher, Isaak Kikoin, Cumrun Vafa, Helen Quinn, Jürgen Kurths, and Christian Møller. After him are Seymour Benzer, Raja Ramanna, Hubert Curien, Karl Taylor Compton, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, and Juan Martín Maldacena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 43Before him are Jane Marcet, George W. Campbell, Marie-Louise Lachapelle, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, DeWitt Clinton, and Isaac Brock. After him is Gaetano Savi. Among people deceased in 1824, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 33Before him are David Bushnell, Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, François Levaillant, Lachlan Macquarie, and Blasius Merrem. After him are Jonathan Dayton, Caesar Augustus Rodney, and Charles Pinckney.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 4,634 out of 6,142Before him are Max Lorenz (1939), Reiner Haseloff (1954), Katarina Barley (1968), Richard Rado (1906), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (1951), and Ludwig Lachmann (1906). After him are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Annegret Richter (1950), Anni Holdmann (1900), Heinz Fütterer (1931), Willy Bandholz (1912), and Thomas Munkelt (1952).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert ranks 93Before him are Hedwig Kohn (1887), Arthur Schuster (1851), Pief Panofsky (1919), Ernst Ising (1900), Gregor Wentzel (1898), and Jürgen Kurths (1953). After him are Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Rudolf Haag (1922), Werner Israel (1931), and Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886).