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Albert Betz

1885 - 1968

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Albert Betz (25 December 1885 – 16 April 1968) was a German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Betz has received more than 63,132 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Betz is the 554th most popular physicist (down from 542nd in 2019), the 3,799th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,584th in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Albert Betz ranks 554 out of 851. Before him are C. P. Snow, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Theodore Lyman IV, David Deutsch, Willem Hendrik Keesom, and Georg Hermann Quincke. After him are Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, John G. Trump, Paul Davies, Joseph Larmor, and Pierre Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Albert Betz ranks 148. Before him are Henry Taylor, Herman Sörgel, Pierre Montet, Sigrid Hjertén, Alice Paul, and Allan Dwan. After him are Blas Infante, Egon Wellesz, Zhou Zuoren, Sophia Parnok, Louise Bryant, and Nadezhda Udaltsova. Among people deceased in 1968, Albert Betz ranks 125. Before him are Ugo Frigerio, Mercedes de Acosta, Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Johann Horvath, Joseph Keilberth, and Chana Orloff. After him are Fay Bainter, Ludowika Jakobsson, Lajos Csordás, Weegee, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and Fernando Giudicelli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Betz ranks 3,799 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht Haushofer (1903), Uwe Rahn (1962), Anton Diffring (1916), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1574), and Hermann Zapf (1918). After him are Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Albrecht Thaer (1752), Inge Scholl (1917), Balthasar Permoser (1651), Otto Witte (1872), and Bernard Dietz (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Albert Betz ranks 75. Before him are Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), and Georg Hermann Quincke (1834). After him are Emil Warburg (1846), Woldemar Voigt (1850), August Beer (1825), Otto Lehmann (1855), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), and Georg Adolf Erman (1806).

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