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 119,957 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Kastler is the 102nd most popular physicist (up from 136th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from France (up from 664th 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, Alfred Kastler ranks 102 out of 717. Before him are William Henry Bragg, Edward Teller, Walther Bothe, C. V. Raman, Joseph Henry, and Hippolyte Fizeau. After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, Kip Thorne, Henry Moseley, George Gamow, Javier Solana, and Victor Francis Hess.
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 96
1908 - 2003
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 97
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 98
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 99
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 100
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 101
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 102
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 103
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 104
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 105
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 106
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 107
1883 - 1964
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 108
Among people born in 1902, Alfred Kastler ranks 20. Before him are Ray Kroc, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Barbara McClintock, Eugene Wigner, Nâzım Hikmet, and William Wyler. After him are Walter Houser Brattain, Kurt Alder, Josemaría Escrivá, Arne Tiselius, Meyer Lansky, and Arne Jacobsen. Among people deceased in 1984, Alfred Kastler ranks 13. Before him are Johnny Weissmuller, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Mikhail Sholokhov, Truman Capote, and Ed Gein. After him are Julio Cortázar, Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, Stanley Milgram, Dmitry Ustinov, and Anna Anderson.
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 14
1902 - 1969
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 15
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 16
1902 - 1995
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 17
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 18
1902 - 1981
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 19
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 20
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 21
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 22
1902 - 1975
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 23
1902 - 1971
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 24
1902 - 1983
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 25
1902 - 1971
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 26
1904 - 1984
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 8
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 9
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 11
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1929 - 1984
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 15
1901 - 1984
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 16
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 17
1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 18
1896 - 1984
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 19
Among people born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 480 out of 6,011. Before him are Karl Brandt (1904), Hugues de Payens (1074), Carlos Gardel (1890), Christine Lagarde (1956), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), and Aristide Briand (1862). After him are Emmanuel Macron (1977), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), Victor Grignard (1871), Gérard Philipe (1922), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), and Alphonse de Lamartine (1790).
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 474
1074 - 1136
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 475
1890 - 1935
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 476
1956 - Present
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 477
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 478
1862 - 1932
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 479
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 480
1977 - Present
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 481
1820 - 1883
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 482
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 483
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 484
1834 - 1904
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 485
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 486
Among physicists born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 13. Before him are Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819). After him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), François Arago (1786), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Albert Fert (1938), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), and Jacques Charles (1763).
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 14
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 15
1799 - 1864
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 16
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 17
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 18
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 19