1902 - 1984
Alfred Kastler (French: [kastlɛʁ]; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Kastler has received more than 93,341 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Alfred Kastler is the 136th most popular physicist (down from 118th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from France (down from 487th in 2019) and the 17th 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, Alfred Kastler ranks 136 out of 721. Before him are Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg, Hans Geiger, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Paul Langevin, and Laura Bassi. After him are Maurice Wilkins, Julius von Mayer, François Englert, Owen Chamberlain, Hans Bethe, and Roger Penrose.
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 130
1939 - 2018
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 131
1882 - 1945
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 132
1742 - 1799
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 133
1872 - 1946
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 134
1711 - 1778
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 135
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 136
1916 - 2004
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 137
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 138
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 139
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 140
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 141
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 142
Among people born in 1902, Alfred Kastler ranks 23. Before him are William Wyler, Eugene Wigner, Arne Jacobsen, Barbara McClintock, Marcel Breuer, and Josemaría Escrivá. After him are Harold Lasswell, Arne Tiselius, Kurt Alder, Meyer Lansky, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Reinhard Gehlen. Among people deceased in 1984, Alfred Kastler ranks 18. Before him are Mikhail Sholokhov, Marvin Gaye, Tigran Petrosian, Julio Cortázar, Anna Anderson, and Oleg Antonov. After him are Mohamed Naguib, Karl Wolff, Sam Peckinpah, Pyotr Kapitsa, Stanley Milgram, and Viktor Shklovsky.
1902 - 1981
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 17
1902 - 1995
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 18
1902 - 1971
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 19
1902 - 1992
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 20
1902 - 1981
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 21
1902 - 1975
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 22
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 23
1902 - 1978
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 24
1902 - 1971
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 25
1902 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 26
1902 - 1983
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 27
1902 - 1947
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 28
1902 - 1979
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 29
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 12
1939 - 1984
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 13
1929 - 1984
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 14
1914 - 1984
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 15
1896 - 1984
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 16
1906 - 1984
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 17
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 18
1901 - 1984
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 19
1900 - 1984
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 20
1925 - 1984
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 21
1894 - 1984
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 22
1933 - 1984
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 23
1893 - 1984
HPI: 71.96
Rank: 24
Among people born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 665 out of 5,234. Before him are Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), Thomas Bangalter (1), Magnentius (303), Paul Langevin (1872), Suzanne Valadon (1865), and Marcel Lefebvre (1905). After him are Raymond Aron (1905), Adam de la Halle (1245), Louis Renault (1877), Roger Garaudy (1913), Hans Bethe (1906), and Dora Maar (1907).
1898 - 1920
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 659
1 - Present
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 660
303 - 353
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 661
1872 - 1946
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 662
1865 - 1938
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 663
1905 - 1991
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 664
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 665
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 666
1245 - 1288
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 667
1877 - 1944
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 668
1913 - 2012
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 669
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 670
1907 - 1997
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 671
Among physicists born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 17. Before him are Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), and Paul Langevin (1872). After him are Hans Bethe (1906), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Jacques Charles (1763), Louis Néel (1904), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), and Edmond Becquerel (1820).
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 11
1774 - 1862
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 12
1788 - 1827
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 13
1786 - 1853
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 14
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 15
1872 - 1946
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 16
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 17
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 18
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 19
1763 - 1823
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 20
1904 - 2000
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 21
1785 - 1836
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 22
1820 - 1891
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 23