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Ernst Chladni

1756 - 1827

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Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (UK: , US: , German: [ɛʁnst ˈfloːʁɛns ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈkladniː]; 30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. He also undertook pioneering work in the study of meteorites and is regarded by some as the father of meteoritics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Chladni is the 429th most popular physicist (down from 319th in 2019), the 2,431st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,355th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernst Chladni ranks 429 out of 851. Before him are Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, and Hantaro Nagaoka. After him are Raoul Pictet, Alan Guth, Homi J. Bhabha, Boris Podolsky, Walther Ritz, and William Stanley Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Ernst Chladni ranks 19. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Joseph Martin Kraus, Abbé Faria, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Wojciech Żywny, and James Gillray. After him are Federico Gravina, Thomas Rowlandson, Paul Wranitzky, John Loudon McAdam, Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, and Karl Philipp Moritz. Among people deceased in 1827, Ernst Chladni ranks 20. Before him are Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, and Robert Surcouf. After him are Georgios Karaiskakis, Thomas Rowlandson, Heinrich Boie, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Charlotte von Stein, and Countess Friederike von Schlieben.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Chladni ranks 2,432 out of 7,253. Before him are Reiner Stahel (1892), Uri Avnery (1923), Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662), Fred Uhlman (1901), and Honoratus (365). After him are August Batsch (1761), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), and Walter Eucken (1891).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ernst Chladni ranks 61. Before him are Friedrich Paschen (1865), August Kundt (1839), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Paul Drude (1863), and Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865). After him are Walther Meissner (1882), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Erich Hückel (1896), Johanna Budwig (1908), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), and Walter Heitler (1904).

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