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Georg Adolf Erman

1806 - 1877

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Georg Adolf Erman (12 May 1806 – 12 July 1877) was a German physicist. Erman was born in Berlin as the son of Paul Erman. He studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise um die Erde durch Nordasien und die beiden Ozeane (1833-1848). The magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Adolf Erman is the 584th most popular physicist (up from 593rd in 2019), the 4,103rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,138th in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 584 out of 851. Before him are Norman Holter, Mark Oliphant, Yakov Frenkel, Yulii Khariton, Antonio Pacinotti, and Sergey Kapitsa. After him are Otto Lehmann, Sumio Iijima, Michael Berry, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Kenneth Bainbridge, and John Henry Schwarz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 43. Before him are Michel Chevalier, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Émile Souvestre, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Julius Hübner, and Jovan Sterija Popović. After him are Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, Aristeidis Moraitinis, Jane Pierce, Michele Amari, and Ivan Kireyevsky. Among people deceased in 1877, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 51. Before him are Julius Rietz, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Janko Matúška, and Robert Swinhoe. After him are Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Karel Sabina, Caroline Unger, Juan Bautista Gill, Nathaniel Palmer, and Federico Errázuriz Zañartu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 4,105 out of 7,253. Before him are Inge Borkh (1921), Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Helmuth Rilling (1933), and John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621). After him are Carl Sternheim (1878), Albert Bassermann (1867), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Gerhard von Schwerin (1899), and Theodor Loos (1883).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Georg Adolf Erman ranks 80. Before him are Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), August Beer (1825), Pief Panofsky (1919), Woldemar Voigt (1850), and Ursula Franklin (1921). After him are Otto Lehmann (1855), Gustav Mie (1868), Albert Betz (1885), Alfred Landé (1888), Walter Kaufmann (1871), and Heinrich Kayser (1853).

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