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Johann Jakob Balmer

1825 - 1898

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Johann Jakob Balmer (1 May 1825 – 12 March 1898) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of hydrogen atom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Balmer is the 160th most popular physicist (down from 151st in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 54th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Physicist.

Johann Jakob Balmer is most famous for his discovery of the hydrogen spectral series.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 160 out of 851. Before him are John Kendrew, Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Frits Zernike, Felix Bloch, and Hans Georg Dehmelt. After him are Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Georges Charpak, Gerd Binnig, and Ernst Abbe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 7. Before him are Johann Strauss II, Pedro II of Brazil, Thomas Henry Huxley, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Jean-Martin Charcot. After him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Charles Garnier, Charles Frederick Worth, Paul Kruger, Henry Walter Bates, and Eduard Hanslick. Among people deceased in 1898, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 8. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone, Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, and Charbel Makhlouf. After him are Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 37 out of 1,015. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Joan Gamper (1877), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), and Franz Mesmer (1734). After him are Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Jacques Necker (1732), Carl Spitteler (1845), Aga Khan IV (1936), Benjamin Constant (1767), and Erich von Däniken (1935).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Balmer ranks 5. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), K. Alex Müller (1927), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), and Felix Bloch (1905). After him are Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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