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Adolf Martens

1850 - 1914

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Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens; 6 March 1850 in Gammelin – 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state. He also made significant contributions to the field of tribology. The functional relationship between the coefficient of friction and the product of sliding speed and viscosity divided by the normal load (well known as the Stribeck curve) was experimentally explored by Adolf Martens in 1888, long before Richard Stribeck made his pioneering measurements in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Martens is the 259th most popular inventor (up from 272nd in 2019), the 3,552nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,732nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Adolf Martens ranks 259 out of 426. Before him are Vittorio Jano, Clive Sinclair, George Pullman, Eugen Langen, Glenn Curtiss, and Hary Gunarto. After him are Arthur Wynne, Michael S. Hart, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Angelo Moriondo, Walter Zapp, and Gerald Bull.

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Among people born in 1850, Adolf Martens ranks 67. Before him are Alfred Edwards, Victoria Benedictsson, Enrico Cecchetti, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Aleksander Gierymski, and Anastasia Golovina. After him are Woldemar Voigt, Siri von Essen, Richard Heuberger, Constantin Fahlberg, Kiyoura Keigo, and Ernest von Koerber. Among people deceased in 1914, Adolf Martens ranks 76. Before him are Ellen Axson Wilson, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Charles Martin Hall, Domenico Ferrata, Nils Christoffer Dunér, and Mehmed Said Pasha. After him are José Evaristo Uriburu, Pyotr Nesterov, Angelo Moriondo, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Benedict Menni, and John Murray.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Martens ranks 3,554 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Max August Zorn (1906), Helmut Walcha (1907), Adolf Stieler (1775), Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1685), and Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917). After him are Lilli Lehmann (1848), Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), Franz Roth (1946), Johann Most (1846), Josef Kammhuber (1896), and Christian Gmelin (1792).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Adolf Martens ranks 36. Before him are Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Oskar Barnack (1879), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), and Eugen Langen (1833). After him are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), Wilhelm Bauer (1822), Walter Bruch (1908), Didi Senft (1952), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), and Heinrich Gerber (1832).

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