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Friedrich Ernst Dorn

1848 - 1916

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Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a German physicist. He is best remembered for his discovery that radium emits a radioactive substance, later named radon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Ernst Dorn is the 403rd most popular physicist (down from 395th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Poland (up from 449th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Ernst Dorn ranks 403 out of 851. Before him are John Kerr, Arpad Elo, George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, and Paul Drude. After him are Samuel Goudsmit, Yoshio Nishina, Otto Schmidt, Jacob Bekenstein, Nick Holonyak, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Friedrich Ernst Dorn ranks 48. Before him are Jules Bastien-Lepage, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Lothar von Trotha, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Thomas Lipton, and Henri Duparc. After him are Hermann von Eichhorn, Kate Sheppard, Anatoly Stessel, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Viktor Meyer, and Benjamin Baillaud. Among people deceased in 1916, Friedrich Ernst Dorn ranks 64. Before him are Max Immelmann, Paolo Tosti, Oswald Boelcke, Herbert Kilpin, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, and Petar Kočić. After him are Isa Boletini, August Leskien, Saki, Tina Blau, Marie Bracquemond, and Ferdinand Fellner.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Friedrich Ernst Dorn ranks 420 out of 1,694. Before him are Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Wilhelm Kube (1887), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), John Cantius (1390), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), and Gustav Freytag (1816). After him are Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Jan Jesenius (1566), Zbigniew Religa (1938), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), and Josef Hofmann (1876).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Friedrich Ernst Dorn ranks 12. Before him are Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), and Leopold Infeld (1898). After him are Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Max Abraham (1875), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Hertha Sponer (1895).

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