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Johann Christian Poggendorff

1796 - 1877

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Johann Christian Poggendorff (29 December 1796 – 24 January 1877) was a German physicist born in Hamburg. By far the greater and more important part of his work related to electricity and magnetism. Poggendorff is known for his electrostatic motor which is analogous to Wilhelm Holtz's electrostatic machine. In 1841 he described the use of the potentiometer for measurement of electrical potentials without current draw. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Christian Poggendorff is the 490th most popular physicist (down from 475th in 2019), the 3,108th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,901st in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 490 out of 851. Before him are Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Robert Brout, Macedonio Melloni, Theodore Hall, and Jayant Narlikar. After him are Christian Mayer, Toshiko Yuasa, Meghnad Saha, Augusto Righi, Heinrich Rubens, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann.

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Among people born in 1796, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 32. Before him are Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, August von Platen-Hallermünde, John Stevens Henslow, David Roberts, and Abdullah Abdul Kadir. After him are Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, William H. Prescott, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Horace Mann, and Fernán Caballero. Among people deceased in 1877, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 36. Before him are Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexander Braun, Walter Bagehot, Alexandre Herculano, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, and Louise Bertin. After him are Charles Wilkes, José de Alencar, Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Johann von Herbeck, Fernán Caballero, and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 3,110 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Lorenz Heister (1683), Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), and Armin Hary (1937). After him are Otto Ambros (1901), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Carl Chun (1852), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), and Johann Rosenmüller (1619).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johann Christian Poggendorff ranks 70. Before him are Erich Hückel (1896), Johanna Budwig (1908), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), and Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687). After him are Heinrich Rubens (1865), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), and August Beer (1825).

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