The Most Famous

PHYSICISTS from Luxembourg

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This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 41st most number of Physicists behind Finland, and Latvia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Physicists of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Gabriel Lippmann (1845 - 1921)

With an HPI of 72.36, Gabriel Lippmann is the most famous Luxembourger Physicist.  His biography has been translated into 88 different languages on wikipedia.

Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a Luxembourgish-born French physicist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference".

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Luxembourger physicists born between 1845 and 1845. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Luxembourger physicists include Gabriel Lippmann.

Deceased Luxembourger Physicists

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