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Emil Wiechert

1861 - 1928

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Emil Johann Wiechert (26 December 1861 – 19 March 1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron. He went on to become the world's first Professor of Geophysics at the University of Göttingen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Wiechert is the 473rd most popular physicist (up from 480th in 2019), the 938th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,046th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Wiechert ranks 473 out of 851. Before him are Gabriele Veneziano, Sameera Moussa, Mildred Dresselhaus, John Canton, John Houghton, and Wilhelm Hisinger. After him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Carlo Rovelli, Heinrich Barkhausen, Pyotr Lebedev, Andrei Linde, and Marian Smoluchowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Emil Wiechert ranks 72. Before him are Hermann Muthesius, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Nikolay Zelinsky, Zinaida Yusupova, Vazha-Pshavela, and Eduard, Duke of Anhalt. After him are Madan Mohan Malaviya, Kurt Hensel, Nasreddine Dinet, James Mark Baldwin, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, and Charlie Soong. Among people deceased in 1928, Emil Wiechert ranks 56. Before him are Medardo Rosso, Hannah Chaplin, Karl Röderer, Adolphe Appia, Gustave Ador, and Edward Walter Maunder. After him are Frank Dicksee, Mauritz Stiller, Robert Lansing, Anita Berber, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, and Enrico Cecchetti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Emil Wiechert ranks 938 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin (1734), Mikhail Yangel (1911), Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), Walter Krupinski (1920), Franz Overbeck (1837), and Yuri Temirkanov (1938). After him are Andrey Myagkov (1938), Vadim Bakatin (1937), Vasily Lanovoy (1934), Eudoxia Streshneva (1608), Mstislav III of Kiev (1150), and Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Emil Wiechert ranks 22. Before him are Alexey Ekimov (1945), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Vladimir Fock (1898), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Boris Podolsky (1896), and Anatoli Bugorski (1942). After him are Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Andrei Linde (1948), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), George Zweig (1937), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), and Yuri Orlov (1924).

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