93,728 profiles ranked live

Back to the boardThe board

Karl Herzfeld

✓ Source-basedfalling

Austrian-American physicist (1892-1978)

United StatesScientistsLived 1892 to 1978 · aged 86
Compare
Fame44.9
Momentum0.6
Languages12
In century#83,153

Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist and chemist. He worked on condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, and statistical mechanics. In 1927, he was the first to quantify when a substance is a metal or an insulator. The Goldhammer-Herzfeld criterion to classify metalloids is named after him.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Scientists from United States 6

Jesse W. Reno44.9Agustín Stahl44.9Virginia Heinlein44.9Charles Elachi44.9Elisha Collier44.9Joyce K. Reynolds44.9

About this person

Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist and chemist. He worked on condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, and statistical mechanics. In 1927, he was the first to quantify when a substance is a metal or an insulator. The Goldhammer-Herzfeld criterion to classify metalloids is named after him. With Frank O. Rice, he studied the rate equations of the pyrolysis of acetaldehyde in 1934. Their model is known as the Rice-Herzfeld mechanism.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1892 to 1978 · aged 86
Written about in
12 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.