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Johannes Stark

1874 - 1957

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Johannes Stark (German: [joˈhanəs ˈʃtaʁk] ; 15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields". This phenomenon is known as the Stark effect. Stark received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich in 1897 under the supervision of Eugen von Lommel, and served as Lommel's assistant until his appointment as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen in 1900. He was an extraordinary professor at Leibniz University Hannover from 1906 until he became a professor at RWTH Aachen University in 1909. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Stark is the 86th most popular physicist (down from 66th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Germany (up from 229th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Physicist.

Johannes Stark was a German physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the "Stark effect." The Stark effect is a phenomenon in which the intensity of light is dependent on the presence of an electric field.

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Among physicists, Johannes Stark ranks 86 out of 851. Before him are Ernst Mach, Manne Siegbahn, Luis Walter Alvarez, Victor Francis Hess, Gustaf Dalén, and Allan MacLeod Cormack. After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Rudolf Clausius, Robert Andrews Millikan, Georg Bednorz, C. F. Powell, and Otto von Guericke.

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Among people born in 1874, Johannes Stark ranks 9. Before him are Robert Frost, W. Somerset Maugham, Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, and Howard Carter. After him are Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, Sunjong of Korea, Chaim Weizmann, Edward Thorndike, and Carl Bosch. Among people deceased in 1957, Johannes Stark ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Paulus, John von Neumann, Diego Rivera, Miklós Horthy, Christian Dior, and Humphrey Bogart. After him are Nikos Kazantzakis, Constantin Brâncuși, Walther Bothe, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Arturo Toscanini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Stark ranks 209 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick Trump (1869), Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756), Gottlob Frege (1848), Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (1808), Hans Zimmer (1957), and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776). After him are Hans Lippershey (1570), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1956), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), and Ferdinand I of Romania (1865).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johannes Stark ranks 10. Before him are Werner Heisenberg (1901), Georg Ohm (1789), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), and Hermann von Helmholtz (1821). After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Georg Bednorz (1950), Otto von Guericke (1602), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Walther Bothe (1891).

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