PHYSICIST

Thomas Johann Seebeck

1770 - 1831

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Thomas Johann Seebeck (German: [ˈtoːmas ˈjoːhan ˈzeːbɛk]; 9 April 1770 – 10 December 1831) was a German physicist, who, in 1822, observed a relationship between heat and magnetism. Later, in 1823, Hans Christian Ørsted called this phenomenon the thermoelectric effect. Seebeck was born in Reval (today Tallinn) to a wealthy Baltic German merchant family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Johann Seebeck has received more than 149,175 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Thomas Johann Seebeck is the 324th most popular physicist (down from 287th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Physicist.

Seebeck discovered that when an electric current is passed through a junction of two different metals, the junction becomes hot. This effect is called the thermoelectric effect and it was used to make the first thermocouple.

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Among physicists, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 324 out of 851. Before him are Ernst Chladni, William Whewell, John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, Henri Pitot, and Samuel C. C. Ting. After him are Bruno Pontecorvo, John B. Goodenough, Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, and Joseph Swan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 20. Before him are George Canning, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Pierre Cambronne, Ferdinando Carulli, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet. After him are Alexandre Pétion, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Lucile Desmoulins, Sequoyah, and François Étienne de Kellermann. Among people deceased in 1831, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 20. Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Vicente Guerrero, Ignaz Pleyel, and Barthold Georg Niebuhr. After him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Maria Szymanowska, Henri Grégoire, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 26 out of 351. Before him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), Siim Kallas (1948), Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), Evald Aav (1900), Jakob von Uexküll (1864), and Ernst Öpik (1893). After him are Kersti Kaljulaid (1969), Jaan Kross (1920), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Johan Laidoner (1884), Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622), and Michael Sittow (1459).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Estonia

Among physicists born in Estonia, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 2. Before him are Emil Lenz (1804). After him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711).

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