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Josef Stefan

1835 - 1893

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Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Stefan is the 54th most popular mathematician (up from 119th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Austria (up from 177th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Mathematician.

Josef Stefan is most famous for his law of radiation, which states that the total power radiated by a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Josef Stefan ranks 54 out of 1,004. Before him are Urbain Le Verrier, Emmy Noether, George Boole, Abraham de Moivre, Archytas, and August Ferdinand Möbius. After him are Sophie Germain, Friedrich Bessel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Josef Stefan ranks 8. Before him are Mark Twain, Empress Dowager Cixi, Camille Saint-Saëns, Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, and Adolf von Baeyer. After him are Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, Demetrius Vikelas, Samuel Butler, and Henryk Wieniawski. Among people deceased in 1893, Josef Stefan ranks 4. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Guy de Maupassant, and Charles Gounod. After him are Patrice de MacMahon, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jean-Martin Charcot, Jan Matejko, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Baron Alexander von Bach, and Ernst Kummer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josef Stefan ranks 85 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906), Alban Berg (1885), Fritz Lang (1890), Albert II of Germany (1397), Mariana of Austria (1634), and Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842). After him are Robert Musil (1880), Carl Czerny (1791), Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), Josef Bican (1913), Christoph Waltz (1956), and Maria Anna Mozart (1751).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Josef Stefan ranks 1. After him are Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Hans Hahn (1879), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Emil Artin (1898), Karl Menger (1902), Hermann Bondi (1919), Philipp Frank (1884), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Hilda Geiringer (1893), and Otto E. Neugebauer (1899).

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