GEOLOGIST

Friedrich Mohs

1773 - 1839

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Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs ( MOHZ, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmoːs]; 29 January 1773 – 29 September 1839) was a German chemist and mineralogist. He was the creator of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Mohs also introduced a classification of the crystal forms in crystal systems independently of Christian Samuel Weiss. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Mohs is the 7th most popular geologist (up from 11th in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from Germany (up from 838th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Geologist.

Friedrich Mohs is most famous for his Mohs scale of mineral hardness.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Friedrich Mohs ranks 7 out of 90. Before him are Charles Francis Richter, Alfred Wegener, Nicolas Steno, Milutin Milanković, Inge Lehmann, and Charles Lyell. After him are James Hutton, Mary Anning, Eduard Suess, Andrija Mohorovičić, Francis Beaufort, and Abraham Gottlob Werner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Friedrich Mohs ranks 6. Before him are Louis Philippe I, Klemens von Metternich, Robert Brown, Thomas Young, and William Henry Harrison. After him are Ludwig Tieck, Louis I of Etruria, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, Aimé Bonpland, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. Among people deceased in 1839, Friedrich Mohs ranks 4. Before him are Mahmud II, Frederick VI of Denmark, and Caroline Bonaparte. After him are Fernando Sor, Ranjit Singh, William, Duke of Nassau, Princess Marie of Orléans, Charlotte Bonaparte, William Smith, Joseph Fesch, and Pehr Henrik Ling.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Mohs ranks 596 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727), Robert the Strong (900), Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (1839), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), and Bert Hellinger (1925). After him are Sophia of Nassau (1836), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Hans Spemann (1869), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Ludwig Tieck (1773), and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Friedrich Mohs ranks 2. Before him are Alfred Wegener (1880). After him are Beno Gutenberg (1889), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Julius von Haast (1822), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Oskar Lenz (1848), and Rudolf Geiger (1894).

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