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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 268,508 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Kleiner is the 537th most popular physicist, the 367th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 12th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alfred Kleiner ranks 537 out of 717. Before him are Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Augusto Righi, Antonio Pacinotti, James David Forbes, Brian Greene, and Knut Ångström. After him are Alexis Thérèse Petit, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Wallace Clement Sabine, William Edward Ayrton, Albert Betz, and Jürgen Ehlers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Alfred Kleiner ranks 71. Before him are Richard Lydekker, Jacob Riis, Gerhard Munthe, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, George Washington Williams, and Giovanni Passannante. After him are Józef Chełmoński, Ferdinand Brunetière, Carl Fredrik Hill, Edmund Barton, William Merritt Chase, and William Knox D'Arcy. Among people deceased in 1916, Alfred Kleiner ranks 98. Before him are Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Émile Faguet, Ishi, William Foulke, Chen Qimei, and Tina Blau. After him are Friedrich Gernsheim, Ștefan Luchian, Alaiza Pashkevich, William Merritt Chase, Albert Chmielowski, and Kazimierz Alchimowicz.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alfred Kleiner ranks 367 out of 876. Before him are Georges Miez (1904), Adolf Ogi (1942), Mattia Binotto (1969), Fernán Caballero (1796), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), and Johann III Bernoulli (1744). After him are Alois Estermann (1954), Jakob Dubs (1822), Gustave Moynier (1826), Aegidius Tschudi (1505), Hakan Yakin (1977), and Robert Pinget (1919).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Alfred Kleiner ranks 12. Before him are K. Alex Müller (1927), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), and Jakob II Bernoulli (1759). After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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