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Adriaan Fokker

1887 - 1972

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adriaan Fokker has received more than 76,056 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Adriaan Fokker is the 658th most popular physicist (down from 604th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indonesian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Adriaan Fokker ranks 658 out of 851. Before him are César Lattes, Michael Berry, Lee Smolin, Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, and Orest Khvolson. After him are Hans Reissner, Mordehai Milgrom, Paul Peter Ewald, Christian Møller, Charles H. Bennett, and Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Adriaan Fokker ranks 212. Before him are Edith Sitwell, Kalle Anttila, Bruno Frank, Janne Lundblad, Ivan Kavaleridze, and Friedrich Gogarten. After him are Gregorio Marañón, Jakob van Hoddis, Boris Kostić, Sid Kimpton, Karl Johan Svensson, and Albert Paris Gütersloh. Among people deceased in 1972, Adriaan Fokker ranks 178. Before him are Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, Carlo Agostoni, Saul Alinsky, Xie Fuzhi, Harold Rainsford Stark, and Isak Abrahamsen. After him are Edmund Wilson, Julian Steward, Alexander Vampilov, He Xiangning, Olavi Virta, and Allauddin Khan.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Adriaan Fokker ranks 63 out of 158. Before him are Sandra Reemer (1950), Xaviera Hollander (1943), Chrisye (1949), Beb Bakhuys (1909), Teuku Umar (1854), and Ilse Werner (1921). After him are Rhoma Irama (1946), Willem Jacob Luyten (1899), Anies Baswedan (1969), Rudy Hartono (1949), Henk Badings (1907), and Abdul Muis (1883).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Indonesia

Among physicists born in Indonesia, Adriaan Fokker ranks 2. Before him are George Uhlenbeck (1900).

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