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Moritz von Jacobi

1801 - 1874

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Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, russified from 1837 as Boris Semyonovich Yakobi (Russian: Борис Семёнович Якоби; 21 September 1801 – 10 March 1874) was a Prussian and Russian Imperial engineer and physicist of Jewish descent. Jacobi worked mainly in the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moritz von Jacobi has received more than 114,067 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Moritz von Jacobi is the 350th most popular physicist (down from 336th in 2019), the 1,669th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,688th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Moritz von Jacobi ranks 350 out of 851. Before him are Jean-Charles de Borda, Franz Ernst Neumann, Walter A. Shewhart, Leopold Infeld, William Sturgeon, and Marguerite Perey. After him are Stephen Hales, Yakov Zeldovich, Heinrich Geißler, Galileo Ferraris, Auguste Bravais, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Moritz von Jacobi ranks 21. Before him are Joseph Lanner, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and Prince Charles of Prussia. After him are George Biddell Airy, Vladimir Dal, William H. Seward, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Zénaïde Bonaparte, and Albert Lortzing. Among people deceased in 1874, Moritz von Jacobi ranks 15. Before him are Josiah Warren, Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Charles Gleyre, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. After him are Constantin von Tischendorf, Cochise, Hans Christian Lumbye, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Peter Cornelius, and Howard Staunton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Moritz von Jacobi ranks 1,669 out of 7,253. Before him are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752), Hans-Peter Briegel (1955), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), Mary Wigman (1886), Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310), and Rudolf Lange (1910). After him are Gustav Landauer (1870), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830), Michael Fassbender (1977), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), and Edmund Landau (1877).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Moritz von Jacobi ranks 51. Before him are Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), John B. Goodenough (1922), and Franz Ernst Neumann (1798). After him are Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), and Franz Aepinus (1724).

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