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Joseph von Fraunhofer

1787 - 1826

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Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (; German: [ˈfraʊnˌhoːfɐ]; 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction grating and also invented the spectroscope. In 1814, he discovered and studied the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph von Fraunhofer is the 124th most popular physicist (down from 118th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Germany (up from 375th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Physicist.

Joseph von Fraunhofer is most famous for his discovery of the dark lines in the spectrum of the sun's light. These lines are now known as Fraunhofer lines.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 124 out of 851. Before him are Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, Albert Fert, Owen Chamberlain, and Anders Jonas Ångström. After him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Alfred Kastler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Compton, and Simon van der Meer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 3. Before him are Louis Daguerre, and Rasmus Rask. After him are Vuk Karadžić, Shaka, François Guizot, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Guillaume Henri Dufour. Among people deceased in 1826, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Carl Maria von Weber, and Giuseppe Piazzi. After him are John VI of Portugal, Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, Joseph Proust, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, and Stamford Raffles.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 318 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808), Karl Ziegler (1898), Baldur von Schirach (1907), and Hermann Staudinger (1881). After him are Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Anton Drexler (1884), Bertha Benz (1849), Katharina von Bora (1498), and Richard Dedekind (1831).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Joseph von Fraunhofer ranks 18. Before him are Georg Bednorz (1950), Otto von Guericke (1602), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Walther Bothe (1891), and Ernst Ruska (1906). After him are Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), and Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922).

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