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Heinrich Rubens

1865 - 1922

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Heinrich Rubens (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈʁuːbənz]; 30 March 1865 – 17 July 1922) was a German experimental physicist known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation, which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Rubens is the 495th most popular physicist (down from 441st in 2019), the 3,170th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,537th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heinrich Rubens ranks 495 out of 851. Before him are Jayant Narlikar, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Christian Mayer, Toshiko Yuasa, Meghnad Saha, and Augusto Righi. After him are Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Emil Warburg, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Robert Serber, and Charles Galton Darwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Heinrich Rubens ranks 97. Before him are Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Édouard Chavannes, Afonso, Duke of Porto, Max Heindel, Wilson Bentley, and Josef Fischer. After him are Tan Sitong, Emma Eckstein, Mahmud Tarzi, Lily Braun, Maciej Sulkiewicz, and Eduard Vilde. Among people deceased in 1922, Heinrich Rubens ranks 74. Before him are Arthur Griffith, Saint-George Ashe, Ricardo Flores Magón, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, and Christiaan de Wet. After him are Kabayama Sukenori, Viktor Kingissepp, Henri Brocard, Bahaeddin Şakir, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, and Géza Gárdonyi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Rubens ranks 3,172 out of 7,253. Before him are Christine Kirch (1697), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1567), Salomon Müller (1804), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), and Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia (1103). After him are Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1537), Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1354), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Heinrich Rubens ranks 71. Before him are Johanna Budwig (1908), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), and Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796). After him are Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), August Beer (1825), and Pief Panofsky (1919).

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