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Paul Drude

1863 - 1906

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Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (German: [ˈdʁuːdə]; 12 July 1863 – 5 July 1906) was a German physicist specializing in optics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Drude has received more than 76,168 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Paul Drude is the 366th most popular physicist (down from 360th in 2019), the 1,847th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,913th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Drude ranks 366 out of 851. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne, Gaston Planté, Charles Fabry, Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. After him are Maurice de Broglie, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Carlo Matteucci, Vladimir Shukhov, and Carl Wieman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Paul Drude ranks 56. Before him are Alexander Siloti, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Hermann Bahr, Hugo Haase, Arthur Machen, and W. I. Thomas. After him are Qasim Amin, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, S. Ansky, Fyodor Sologub, Charles Martin Hall, and Gabriel Pierné. Among people deceased in 1906, Paul Drude ranks 18. Before him are Anton Arensky, Alexander Kielland, Frits Thaulow, Bartolomé Mitre, Jules Breton, and Elizabeth of the Trinity. After him are Eugène Carrière, Raja Ravi Varma, Mihály Zichy, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Joseph Monier, and Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Drude ranks 1,847 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland (1733), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373), Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460), Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202), and Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706). After him are Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (1390), Julius Dorpmüller (1869), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia (1746), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (1373), and Charles II, Elector Palatine (1651).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Paul Drude ranks 55. Before him are John B. Goodenough (1922), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824). After him are Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Walther Gerlach (1889), and Johanna Budwig (1908).

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