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Johann Josef Loschmidt

1821 - 1895

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Johann Josef Loschmidt (15 March 1821 – 8 July 1895), better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics), and crystal forms. Born in Karlsbad, a town in the Austrian Empire (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic), Loschmidt became professor of physical chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1868. He had two early mentors. The first was Bohemian priest Adalbert Czech, who persuaded Loschmidt's parents to send young Josef to high school in the Piarist monastery in Schlackenwerth and, in 1837, to advanced high-school classes in Prague. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Josef Loschmidt is the 236th most popular chemist (down from 174th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 121st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Chemist.

Johann Josef Loschmidt was a German physicist who is most famous for his work on the kinetic theory of gases. He was able to show that the volume of a gas is proportional to the pressure and temperature and that the number of molecules in a gas is proportional to the volume.

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Among chemists, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 236 out of 602. Before him are Stanley Miller, James B. Conant, Stanislao Cannizzaro, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, John Frederic Daniell, and John Pople. After him are Hideki Shirakawa, Louis Jacques Thénard, Charles J. Pedersen, Hennig Brand, Antoine Jérôme Balard, and Friedrich Sertürner.

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Among people born in 1821, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 17. Before him are Wilhelm Tempel, Louis Vuitton, Pauline Viardot, Charles Tupper, Richard Francis Burton, and Anita Garibaldi. After him are Nikolay Nekrasov, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Heinrich Barth, Arthur Cayley, Bartolomé Mitre, and Andrew Kim Taegon. Among people deceased in 1895, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 18. Before him are Adam Opel, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, John Russell Hind, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, and Charles Frederick Worth. After him are Nikolai Leskov, Friedrich Miescher, Arthur Cayley, Frederick Douglass, James Dwight Dana, and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 125 out of 1,200. Before him are Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840), Prokop the Great (1380), Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (915), Jan Neruda (1834), Elizabeth of Görlitz (1390), and Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852). After him are Jan Švankmajer (1934), Daniel Swarovski (1862), Emilie Schindler (1907), Věra Čáslavská (1942), Mojmir I of Moravia (795), and Anton Reicha (1770).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Johann Josef Loschmidt ranks 4. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), and Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890). After him are Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Otto Wichterle (1913), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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