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Thomas Johann Seebeck

1770 - 1831

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Thomas Johann Seebeck (German: [ˈtoːmas ˈjoːhan ˈzeːbɛk]; 9 April 1770 – 10 December 1831) was a German physicist who observed a relationship between heat and magnetism. Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted later called this phenomenon the thermoelectric effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Johann Seebeck is the 340th most popular physicist (down from 325th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Estonia and the 2nd most popular Estonian Physicist.

Seebeck discovered that when an electric current is passed through a junction of two different metals, the junction becomes hot. This effect is called the thermoelectric effect and it was used to make the first thermocouple.

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Among physicists, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 340 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Carl Wieman, Jan Ingenhousz, John B. Goodenough, Fritjof Capra, and Robert B. Laughlin. After him are Bruno Pontecorvo, Stephen Hales, Giorgio Parisi, Joseph Swan, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, and Yakov Zeldovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 16. Before him are François Gérard, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Anton Reicha, Theodoros Kolokotronis, and Manuel Belgrano. After him are Princess Carolina of Parma, Alexandre Pétion, George Canning, Ferdinando Carulli, Alexandre Brongniart, and Adam Johann von Krusenstern. Among people deceased in 1831, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 23. Before him are Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Maria Szymanowska, Ignaz Pleyel, Vicente Guerrero, Rodolphe Kreutzer, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. After him are Henri Grégoire, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Princess Louise of Denmark, Jean-Louis Pons, and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 26 out of 351. Before him are Felix Kersten (1898), Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), Ernst Öpik (1893), Jacob De la Gardie (1583), Andrus Ansip (1956), and Johan Laidoner (1884). After him are Jaan Kross (1920), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), George Hackenschmidt (1877), Kersti Kaljulaid (1969), Lydia Koidula (1843), and Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Estonia

Among physicists born in Estonia, Thomas Johann Seebeck ranks 2. Before him are Emil Lenz (1804). After him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711).

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