The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Indonesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 2 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 37th most number of Physicists behind Bangladesh, and Iraq.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. George Uhlenbeck (1900 - 1988)
With an HPI of 57.85, George Uhlenbeck is the most famous Indonesian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist, known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He is most famous for co-developing the concept of electron spin, alongside Samuel Goudsmit, in 1925. The formalization of Langevin equation for the Brownian motion as a stochastic process, is known as the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, derived in 1930 from his work with Leonard Ornstein.
2. Adriaan Fokker (1887 - 1972)
With an HPI of 47.80, Adriaan Fokker is the 2nd most famous Indonesian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Adriaan Daniël Fokker (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːdrijaːn ˈdaːnijɛl ˈfɔkər]; 17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972) was a Dutch physicist. He worked in the fields of special relativity and statistical mechanics. He was the inventor of the Fokker organ, a 31-tone equal-tempered (31-TET) organ.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Indonesian physicists born between 1887 and 1900. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Indonesian physicists include George Uhlenbeck, and Adriaan Fokker.
