PHYSICIST

Johann Andreas Segner

1704 - 1777

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Johann Andreas von Segner (Hungarian: Segner János András, German: Johann Andreas von Segner, Slovak: Ján Andrej Segner, Latin: Iohannes Andreas de Segner; October 9, 1704 – October 5, 1777) was a Hungarian scientist of German descent. He was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, in the former Hungarian capital city of Pozsony, or Pressburg (today Bratislava). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Andreas Segner is the 421st most popular physicist (up from 427th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 69th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Andreas Segner ranks 421 out of 851. Before him are Lyman Spitzer, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Robert W. Wood, Bruno Rossi, and Georgy Flyorov. After him are John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, and Saul Perlmutter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Johann Andreas Segner ranks 11. Before him are Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Carl Heinrich Graun, John Kay, Hans Hermann von Katte, and Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens. After him are Louis de Jaucourt, Carlos Seixas, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Charles Pinot Duclos, Andrija Kačić Miošić, and Richard Pococke. Among people deceased in 1777, Johann Andreas Segner ranks 9. Before him are Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Albrecht von Haller, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Charles de Brosses, and Georg Christoph Wagenseil. After him are Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Charles-Joseph Natoire, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Maxim Berezovsky, Bernard de Jussieu, and Enrichetta d'Este.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Johann Andreas Segner ranks 65 out of 418. Before him are Barbara Zápolya (1495), Jozef Adamec (1942), Mikuláš Dzurinda (1956), Bálint Balassi (1554), Karol Dobiaš (1947), and Stefan Vojislav (990). After him are Teréz Brunszvik (1775), Ányos Jedlik (1800), Adolf Scherer (1938), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Léopold Szondi (1893), and Anton Ondruš (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Slovakia

Among physicists born in Slovakia, Johann Andreas Segner ranks 2. Before him are Philipp Lenard (1862). After him are Ányos Jedlik (1800).

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