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Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels

1865 - 1913

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Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (18 June 1865 – 29 August 1913) was a German physicist. He was born in Italy to Captain Theodore Pockels and Alwine Becker. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1888, and from 1900 to 1913 he was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg. Pockels studied under the guidance of Woldemar Voigt, who was a physicist working on the general phenomena of piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels is the 748th most popular physicist (down from 665th in 2019), the 4,005th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,637th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels ranks 748 out of 851. Before him are Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Robert Bacher, Hans Reissner, Hubert Curien, Adriaan Fokker, and Humberto Fernández-Morán. After him are Stanton T. Friedman, John Hopkinson, Balfour Stewart, Max Tegmark, Elda Emma Anderson, and Mary K. Gaillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels ranks 154. Before him are Vladimir Bogoraz, Ferdinand Feyerick, John Stanley Plaskett, Pavel Shternberg, Wilhelm Wirtinger, and Leónidas Plaza. After him are John Monash, Arthur Symons, Janez Evangelist Krek, Charles Stanton Ogle, Charles Sands, and Susan La Flesche Picotte. Among people deceased in 1913, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels ranks 91. Before him are George Finnegan, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Elena Guro, John Milne, Mathilde Marchesi, and Emma Schenson. After him are Alphonse Kirchhoffer, Frederick Rolfe, Daniel David Palmer, Alfred Austin, Alfred Lyttelton, and Joaquin Miller.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels ranks 4,006 out of 5,161. Before him are Luigi Ferrando (1941), Lino Aldani (1926), Carlo Giuffrè (1928), Alessandro Petacchi (1974), Riccardo Ferri (1963), and Claudio Sala (1947). After him are Giuseppe Domenichelli (1887), Gavino Matta (1910), Virginia Raggi (1978), Ivan Basso (1977), Guido Gozzano (1883), and Antonio Siddi (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels ranks 36. Before him are Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Tullio Regge (1931), Franco Rasetti (1901), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), and Bruno Zumino (1923). After him are Gian Francesco Giudice (1961), and Philip Kim (1967).

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