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Emil Lenz

1804 - 1865

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Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (German: [ˈeːmɪl ˈlɛnts]; also Emil Khristianovich Lenz; Russian: Эми́лий Христиа́нович Ленц; 12 February 1804 – 10 February 1865), usually cited as Emil Lenz or Heinrich Lenz in some countries, was an Estonian physicist who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1834. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Lenz is the 137th most popular physicist (down from 94th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Physicist.

Emil Lenz was a German physicist who discovered that when an electric current is passed through a wire, the wire becomes an electromagnet.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Lenz ranks 137 out of 851. Before him are James Rainwater, Carl Zeiss, Hans Bethe, James Franck, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Emilio Segrè. After him are George Gamow, C. V. Raman, Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Roger Penrose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Emil Lenz ranks 9. Before him are George Sand, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, Benjamin Disraeli, and Mikhail Glinka. After him are Allan Kardec, Marie Taglioni, Mongkut, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, and Richard Owen. Among people deceased in 1865, Emil Lenz ranks 7. Before him are Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Ignaz Semmelweis, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leopold I of Belgium, and William Rowan Hamilton. After him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Johann Franz Encke, William Jackson Hooker, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Emil Lenz ranks 4 out of 351. Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), and Arvo Pärt (1935). After him are Arnold Rüütel (1928), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Paul Keres (1916), and Kaja Kallas (1977).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Estonia

Among physicists born in Estonia, Emil Lenz ranks 1. After him are Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770), and Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711).

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