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August Kundt

1839 - 1894

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August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt (German: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈkʊnt]; 18 November 1839 – 21 May 1894) was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube, an appartus used to measure the speed of sound in gases and solids. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Kundt is the 382nd most popular physicist (down from 275th in 2019), the 1,894th most popular biography from Germany (down from 994th in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, August Kundt ranks 382 out of 851. Before him are Maurice de Broglie, Walter H. Schottky, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Federico Faggin, and Friedrich Paschen. After him are Abram Ioffe, Vladimir Fock, Edward Witten, George Johnstone Stoney, Qian Xuesen, and Donna Strickland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, August Kundt ranks 24. Before him are Nikolay Bobrikov, Josef Rheinberger, Machado de Assis, Ali Rıza Efendi, Konstantin Makovsky, and Floriano Peixoto. After him are Yoshitoshi, Karl Alfred von Zittel, George Mary Searle, Henry George, Harry Seeley, and Ahmed Muhtar Pasha. Among people deceased in 1894, August Kundt ranks 27. Before him are Austen Henry Layard, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Eugène Charles Catalan, Nikolai Ge, Alexander von Middendorff, and William Waddington. After him are R. M. Ballantyne, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Guillaume Lekeu, Christina Rossetti, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, and Sante Geronimo Caserio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Kundt ranks 1,894 out of 7,253. Before him are Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), Hemma (800), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), and Friedrich Paschen (1865). After him are Philipp Lahm (1983), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Therese Brandl (1902), and Ralf Schumacher (1975).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, August Kundt ranks 56. Before him are Heinrich Geißler (1814), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Friedrich Paschen (1865). After him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Paul Drude (1863), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Ernst Chladni (1756), and Walther Meissner (1882).

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