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Jakob II Bernoulli

1759 - 1789

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Jakob II Bernoulli (17 October 1759, Basel – 3 July 1789, Saint Petersburg), younger brother of Johann III Bernoulli, was a Swiss physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob II Bernoulli is the 571st most popular physicist (down from 504th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 319th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 571 out of 851Before him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, José Celestino Mutis, Lev Artsimovich, Ralph H. Fowler, Willem Hendrik Keesom, and John Lennard-Jones. After him are Marietta Blau, Claude Pouillet, Marcel Brillouin, Eric Allin Cornell, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, and Wallace Clement Sabine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 33Before him are Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Ferenc Kazinczy, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, William Playfair, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, and Maximilian von Montgelas. After him are Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Josepha Weber, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, August Wilhelm Iffland, Cornelio Saavedra, and William Kirby. Among people deceased in 1789, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 19Before him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Paolo Renier, Jafar Khan, John Cleland, and Anders Dahl. After him are Paul Egede, Sayed Morad Khan, Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Jack Broughton.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 409 out of 1,015Before him are Stéphane Chapuisat (1969), Jakob Hermann (1678), Pierre Viret (1511), Otto Binswanger (1852), Josef Munzinger (1791), and Mick Schumacher (1999). After him are Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950), Ernst Brenner (1856), Luuk de Jong (1990), Max Abegglen (1902), Roger Courtois (1912), and Bernhard Russi (1948).

Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Jakob II Bernoulli ranks 11Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), and Walther Ritz (1878). After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), Alfred Kleiner (1849), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).