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Paul Drude

1863 - 1906

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Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (; German: [ˈdʁuːdə] ; 12 July 1863 – 5 July 1906) was a German physicist specializing in optics. He was known for the Drude model. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Drude is the 402nd most popular physicist (down from 367th in 2019), the 2,120th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,847th in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Drude ranks 402 out of 851. Before him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, John Kerr, Arpad Elo, George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, and Tom Kibble. After him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Samuel Goudsmit, Yoshio Nishina, Otto Schmidt, Jacob Bekenstein, and Nick Holonyak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Paul Drude ranks 58. Before him are Gabriel Pierné, Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, W. I. Thomas, Alexander Siloti, and Arthur Machen. After him are Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Hugo Haase, Paul Héroult, Paul Walden, Abdul Karim, and Qasim Amin. Among people deceased in 1906, Paul Drude ranks 23. Before him are Eugène Carrière, Jules Breton, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Joseph Monier, Mihály Zichy, and Jean Cabanis. After him are Elizabeth of the Trinity, Étienne Carjat, Prince Albert of Prussia, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, Giuseppe Giacosa, and Mary Putnam Jacobi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Drude ranks 2,121 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Buch (1883), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516), George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539), and Ernst Curtius (1814). After him are George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Elke Sommer (1940), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Ludwig Uhland (1787), and Gustaf Gründgens (1899).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Paul Drude ranks 59. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Friedrich Paschen (1865), August Kundt (1839), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), and Moritz von Jacobi (1801). After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Ernst Chladni (1756), Walther Meissner (1882), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Erich Hückel (1896), and Johanna Budwig (1908).

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