PHYSICIST

Ányos Jedlik

1800 - 1895

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Ányos István Jedlik (1800 – 1895) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ányos Jedlik has received more than 224,286 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ányos Jedlik is the 403rd most popular physicist (down from 378th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 57th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ányos Jedlik ranks 403 out of 851Before him are Takaaki Kajita, Samuel Goudsmit, Hantaro Nagaoka, Chester Carlson, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, and Nick Holonyak. After him are Rudolf Peierls, Walther Gerlach, John Canton, Wander Johannes de Haas, John Dollond, and Edwin Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Ányos Jedlik ranks 32Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Henri Milne-Edwards, Achille Devéria, and George Bentham. After him are John Nelson Darby, Charles Rogier, Aga Khan I, Jakob Lorber, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Mihály Vörösmarty. Among people deceased in 1895, Ányos Jedlik ranks 36Before him are John Russell Hind, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Floriano Peixoto, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Gustav Freytag, and François Certain de Canrobert. After him are Mykhailo Drahomanov, Stefan Stambolov, Ding Ruchang, Tomoji Tanabe, Albert F. Mummery, and Władysław Podkowiński.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ányos Jedlik ranks 64 out of 418Before him are Jozef Adamec (1942), Ján Popluhár (1935), Stefan Vojislav (990), Mikuláš Dzurinda (1956), Vladimír Clementis (1902), and Jan Kupecký (1667). After him are Ľudovít Fulla (1902), Karol Dobiaš (1947), Alexander Mach (1902), Ondrej Nepela (1951), Johann Andreas Segner (1704), and Léopold Szondi (1893).

Among PHYSICISTS In Slovakia

Among physicists born in Slovakia, Ányos Jedlik ranks 2Before him are Philipp Lenard (1862). After him are Johann Andreas Segner (1704).