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Ludwig Biermann

1907 - 1986

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Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann (March 13, 1907 in Hamm – January 12, 1986 in München) was a German astronomer, obtaining his Ph.D. from Göttingen University in 1932. He made important contributions to astrophysics and plasma physics, discovering the Biermann battery. He predicted the existence of the solar wind which in 1947 he dubbed "solar corpuscular radiation". He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1961. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Biermann is the 403rd most popular astronomer (up from 406th in 2019), the 4,050th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,421st in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ludwig Biermann ranks 403 out of 644. Before him are Gustav Spörer, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Viktor Knorre, Alvan Graham Clark, Henry E. Holt, and Dorothea Klumpke. After him are Geoffrey Burbidge, Jill Tarter, Michael E. Brown, Bart Bok, Friedrich Tietjen, and Georg Marcgrave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ludwig Biermann ranks 222. Before him are Béla Barényi, Zezé Moreira, Ragnar Gustavsson, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Gordon Douglas, and Vasja Pirc. After him are Germán Suárez Flamerich, Đuro Kurepa, Jean Aerts, Paula Wessely, Walter Nausch, and John McIntire. Among people deceased in 1986, Ludwig Biermann ranks 159. Before him are Hermione Baddeley, Peter Pears, Bessie Love, Alberto Zorrilla, Marcel Arland, and Agustín Sauto Arana. After him are Gaston Defferre, Jagjivan Ram, Mary Eristavi, Herma Szabo, Heinz Strehl, and Ronald McNair.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Biermann ranks 4,052 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustav Lange (1830), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1677), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), and Michael Artin (1934). After him are Gernot Rohr (1953), Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767), Torsten Frings (1976), Roman Weidenfeller (1980), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843), and Karl-Heinz Metzner (1923).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Ludwig Biermann ranks 60. Before him are Otto Lesser (1830), Paul Götz (1883), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Albrecht Unsöld (1905), and Gustav Spörer (1822). After him are Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Georg Marcgrave (1610), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), and Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825).

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