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Alfred Kastler

1902 - 1984

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Alfred Kastler (French: [kastlɛʁ]; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Kastler has received more than 146,408 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Alfred Kastler is the 107th most popular physicist (down from 102nd in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from France (up from 480th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Physicist.

Alfred Kastler was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 for his work on the scattering of electromagnetic waves. He is most famous for his work on the Kastler-Brossel effect.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alfred Kastler ranks 107 out of 851. Before him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Dennis Gabor, François Arago, Willis Lamb, Owen Chamberlain, and Roger Penrose. After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot, Heinrich Rohrer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Hippolyte Fizeau, Peter Debye, and Anders Jonas Ångström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alfred Kastler ranks 17. Before him are Halldór Laxness, Talcott Parsons, Eugene Wigner, Fernand Braudel, Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Nâzım Hikmet. After him are Kurt Alder, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Ray Kroc, and William Wyler. Among people deceased in 1984, Alfred Kastler ranks 12. Before him are François Truffaut, Mikhail Sholokhov, Johnny Weissmuller, Mohamed Naguib, Julio Cortázar, and Martin Niemöller. After him are Tigran Petrosian, Ed Gein, Ray Kroc, Stanislaw Ulam, Martin Ryle, and Carl Ferdinand Cori.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 471 out of 6,770. Before him are André Derain (1880), Eugène Boudin (1824), Stephen, King of England (1095), Jacques Prévert (1900), Isabelle Adjani (1955), and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824). After him are René Guénon (1886), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), Alfred de Musset (1810), Ambroise Paré (1510), and Yves Klein (1928).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 13. Before him are Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786). After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Paul Langevin (1872), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), and Albert Fert (1938).

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