PHYSICIST

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

1824 - 1914

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Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (27 March 1824 – 28 November 1914) was a German physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor for understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements. He experimented with tubes containing energy rays extending from a negative electrode. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Wilhelm Hittorf is the 375th most popular physicist (down from 366th in 2019), the 1,846th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,821st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 375 out of 851. Before him are Wolfgang Ketterle, Karl Guthe Jansky, Jurij Vega, Vladimir Shukhov, Franz Ernst Neumann, and Galileo Ferraris. After him are Maurice de Broglie, Walter H. Schottky, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Federico Faggin, and Friedrich Paschen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 29. Before him are Peter Cornelius, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, William Walker, Tokugawa Iesada, George Speck, and Leland Stanford. After him are Jozef Israëls, Adolphe Monticelli, John Kerr, Levi P. Morton, Kuno Fischer, and George MacDonald. Among people deceased in 1914, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 38. Before him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Joseph Swan, Albert Günther, Theodor Kittelsen, George Speck, and Christian Morgenstern. After him are Jurji Zaydan, George William Hill, Julio Argentino Roca, Empress Shōken, Albéric Magnard, and Ayub Khan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 1,846 out of 7,253. Before him are Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Rudolf Lange (1910), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), and Gustav von Schmoller (1838). After him are Gisela of Swabia (990), Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), Augustin Bea (1881), Gregor Gysi (1948), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), and Armin Laschet (1961).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf ranks 53. Before him are Walther Gerlach (1889), Pascual Jordan (1902), Franz Aepinus (1724), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), and Franz Ernst Neumann (1798). After him are Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Friedrich Paschen (1865), August Kundt (1839), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), and Paul Drude (1863).

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