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Friedrich Paschen

1865 - 1947

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Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen (22 January 1865 – 25 February 1947) was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908. He established the now widely used Paschen curve in his article "Über die zum Funkenübergang in Luft, Wasserstoff und Kohlensäure bei verschiedenen Drücken erforderliche Potentialdifferenz". He is known for the Paschen-Back effect, which is the Zeeman effect's becoming non-linear at high magnetic field. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Paschen is the 381st most popular physicist (up from 393rd in 2019), the 1,893rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,099th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Paschen ranks 381 out of 851. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Maurice de Broglie, Walter H. Schottky, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Federico Faggin. After him are August Kundt, Abram Ioffe, Vladimir Fock, Edward Witten, George Johnstone Stoney, and Qian Xuesen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Friedrich Paschen ranks 55. Before him are Rafael Merry del Val, Sabino Arana, Princess Marie of Orléans, Abraham Isaac Kook, Edith Cavell, and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow. After him are Lucjan Żeligowski, Jovan Cvijić, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Charles Bally, Wilbur Scoville, and Jehanne D'Alcy. Among people deceased in 1947, Friedrich Paschen ranks 70. Before him are Victor Serge, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Slavko Kvaternik, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Władysław Raczkiewicz, and Ludwig Fischer. After him are Huda Sha'arawi, Lucjan Żeligowski, Archduchess Louise of Austria, W. I. Thomas, Karol Świerczewski, and Charles Bally.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Paschen ranks 1,893 out of 7,253. Before him are Herbert Kappler (1907), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), Hemma (800), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764). After him are August Kundt (1839), Philipp Lahm (1983), Johannes Steinhoff (1913), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Eduard Rüppell (1794), and Therese Brandl (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Friedrich Paschen ranks 55. Before him are Franz Aepinus (1724), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), and Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840). After him are August Kundt (1839), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Paul Drude (1863), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), and Ernst Chladni (1756).

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