PHYSICIST

Carl August von Steinheil

1801 - 1870

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Carl August von Steinheil (12 October 1801 – 14 September 1870) was a German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl August von Steinheil is the 624th most popular physicist (down from 568th in 2019), the 4,208th most popular biography from France (down from 3,856th in 2019) and the 66th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 624 out of 851Before him are Heinrich Kayser, Jean Becquerel, Franco Rasetti, Abraham Alikhanov, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, and Charles Kittel. After him are Harriet Brooks, Max Wien, Walther Müller, Georg Hermann Quincke, Ole Jacob Broch, and Robert R. Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 73Before him are Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, František Škroup, Carlo Cattaneo, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, and Édouard Spach. After him are Ludwig Bechstein, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Jules Pierre Rambur, William Hallowes Miller, Robert J. Walker, and Athanasios Vouros. Among people deceased in 1870, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 52Before him are Moshoeshoe I, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Carlos Soublette, Auguste Duméril, and Christian Albrecht Jensen. After him are Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, Franz Unger, Jules Pierre Rambur, Albrecht von Graefe, Charles Joseph Minard, and Thomas Campbell Eyton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 4,208 out of 6,770Before him are Henri Deloge (1874), Jean-Claude Andruet (1940), Annette Messager (1943), Clémence Royer (1830), Albert Capellani (1874), and Édouard Spach (1801). After him are Jean Guillou (1930), Jean Cugnot (1899), Mady Mesplé (1931), Michel Pécheux (1911), Grégory Coupet (1972), and Sébastien Ogier (1983).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Carl August von Steinheil ranks 66Before him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Claude Pouillet (1790), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Pierre Weiss (1865), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), and Jean Becquerel (1878). After him are Yvette Cauchois (1908), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Hubert Curien (1924), Jacques Friedel (1921), and Thibault Damour (1951).