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Joseph Petzval

1807 - 1891

Joseph Petzval

Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 17 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary (in German: Zipser Bela, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia). Petzval studied and later lectured at the Institutum Geometricum (currently Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Buda (today part of Budapest). He headed the Institute of Practical Geometry and Hydrology/Architecture between 1841 and 1848. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Petzval is the 234th most popular mathematician (down from 232nd in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Petzval ranks 234 out of 1,004. Before him are Helge von Koch, Hermann Grassmann, Menaechmus, Karen Uhlenbeck, Abu Nasr Mansur, and Theaetetus. After him are Michael Atiyah, Callippus, Michel Chasles, Richard S. Hamilton, Giovanni Ceva, and Marcel Grossmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Joseph Petzval ranks 8. Before him are Robert E. Lee, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Jules Grévy, Louis Agassiz, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Lajos Batthyány. After him are Anthony Mary Claret, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Bezmiâlem Sultan, Harriet Taylor Mill, Charles Francis Adams Sr., and Princess Feodora of Leiningen. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Petzval ranks 31. Before him are Jan Neruda, Édouard Lucas, Georges Ernest Boulanger, N. R. Pogson, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, and Theophil Hansen. After him are Ernest Meissonier, William Tecumseh Sherman, Princess Cecilie of Baden, Johan Jongkind, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, and Théodore de Banville.

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Robert E. Lee
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1807 - 1870
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1807 - 1882
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1807 - 1849
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1807 - 1891
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Anthony Mary Claret
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