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Julius Plücker

1801 - 1868

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Julius Plücker (16 June 1801 – 22 May 1868) was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Plücker is the 336th most popular mathematician (up from 358th in 2019), the 2,012th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,400th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Julius Plücker ranks 336 out of 1,004. Before him are Wilhelm Ackermann, Pavel Alexandrov, Eugenio Beltrami, Alfred Korzybski, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, and Gotthold Eisenstein. After him are Joseph Diez Gergonne, Lev Pontryagin, Yi Xing, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Rudolf E. Kálmán, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Julius Plücker ranks 30. Before him are Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, William H. Seward, Thomas Cole, Moritz von Jacobi, David Farragut, and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi. After him are Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Justo José de Urquiza, Fredrika Bremer, Karl Baedeker, Johann Nestroy, and Salvadore Cammarano. Among people deceased in 1868, Julius Plücker ranks 23. Before him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, James Brooke, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, James Mayer de Rothschild, Kondō Isami, and Rasoherina. After him are Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Nakano Takeko, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Venancio Flores.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Plücker ranks 2,013 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael von Faulhaber (1869), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Hans-Peter Briegel (1955), and Gotthold Eisenstein (1823). After him are Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1667), Hermann Priess (1901), John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1666), Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1882), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), and Johann Homann (1664).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Julius Plücker ranks 38. Before him are Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Michael Stifel (1487), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), and Gotthold Eisenstein (1823). After him are Felix Bernstein (1878), Andreas Osiander (1498), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Michael Maestlin (1550), Lothar Collatz (1910), and Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896).

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