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Alfred Kleiner

1849 - 1916

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Alfred Kleiner (24 April 1849 – 3 July 1916) was a Swiss physicist and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich. He was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or Doktorvater. Initially Einstein's advisor was Heinrich F. Weber. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Kleiner has received more than 284,331 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Kleiner is the 601st most popular physicist (down from 537th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 366th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alfred Kleiner ranks 601 out of 851. Before him are Clyde Cowan, Joan Feynman, Seth Neddermeyer, Bruno Zumino, Toshiko Yuasa, and Heinrich Kayser. After him are Robert H. Dicke, Henry Augustus Rowland, Wilhelm Hisinger, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Robert Mills, and Marcel Brillouin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Alfred Kleiner ranks 82. Before him are Pedro Montt, Richard Lydekker, Prosper-René Blondlot, Henry Clay Frick, John Hartley, and Panas Myrny. After him are Gerhard Munthe, Johan Kjeldahl, Emil Zuckerkandl, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Fernand de Langle de Cary, and N. E. Brown. Among people deceased in 1916, Alfred Kleiner ranks 112. Before him are Albert Chmielowski, Charles Dawson, Ioannis Frangoudis, Ishi, Henri Harpignies, and Florence Baker. After him are Giuseppe Pitrè, Ștefan Luchian, Gabrielle Petit, Walter Sutton, Karl Klindworth, and Clements Markham.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alfred Kleiner ranks 443 out of 1,015. Before him are Simeon Bavier (1825), Charles Antenen (1929), Walter Wild (1872), Walther von Wartburg (1888), Nicolas Fuss (1755), and Walter Breisky (1871). After him are Heinz Hermann (1958), Fritz Schär (1926), Joseph Benz (1944), Aurèle Nicolet (1926), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), and Stan Wawrinka (1985).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Alfred Kleiner ranks 12. Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), and Jakob II Bernoulli (1759). After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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