CHEMIST

Heinrich Gustav Magnus

1802 - 1870

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Heinrich Gustav Magnus (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈɡʊstaːf ˈmaːɡnʊs]; 2 May 1802 – 4 April 1870) was a German experimental scientist. His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics. He spent the great bulk of his career at the University of Berlin, where he is remembered for his laboratory teaching as much as for his original research. He did not use his first given name, and was known throughout his life as Gustav Magnus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Gustav Magnus is the 280th most popular chemist (down from 190th in 2019), the 1,342nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,014th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Chemist.

Heinrich Gustav Magnus was a German physicist who was most famous for his work on the Magnus effect.

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Among chemists, Heinrich Gustav Magnus ranks 280 out of 602. Before him are Joseph L. Goldstein, Ben Feringa, Akira Yoshino, Paul Ulrich Villard, Martin Karplus, and Thomas Graham. After him are André-Louis Debierne, Ascanio Sobrero, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, and Richard J. Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Heinrich Gustav Magnus ranks 18. Before him are Charles Wheatstone, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Pavel Nakhimov, Hermann Goldschmidt, and Nikolaus Lenau. After him are Husein Gradaščević, Germain Henri Hess, Charlotte Bonaparte, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Leopold Fitzinger. Among people deceased in 1870, Heinrich Gustav Magnus ranks 17. Before him are Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gabriel Lamé, Saverio Mercadante, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Princess Louise of Prussia, and Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry. After him are Victor Noir, Anthony Mary Claret, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Jules de Goncourt, and Ignaz Moscheles.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Gustav Magnus ranks 1,342 out of 7,253. Before him are Sebastian Münster (1488), Arnold Janssen (1837), Walter Röhrl (1947), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), and Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723). After him are Til Schweiger (1963), Viktor Lutze (1890), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Johannes Althusius (1563), Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854), and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Heinrich Gustav Magnus ranks 48. Before him are Henri Victor Regnault (1810), John Polanyi (1929), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Franz Karl Achard (1753), and Joachim Sauer (1949). After him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Andreas Libavius (1555), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), and Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806).

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