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Arthur Schuster

1851 - 1934

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Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Schuster's integral is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Schuster has received more than 115,769 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Schuster is the 659th most popular physicist (down from 582nd in 2019), the 4,354th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,622nd in 2019) and the 88th most popular German Physicist.

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  • 15

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  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arthur Schuster ranks 659 out of 717. Before him are Lisa Randall, Gregory Breit, Hedwig Kohn, John Aitken, George F. R. Ellis, and Valentine Telegdi. After him are Orest Khvolson, Max Tegmark, Stanley Mandelstam, Brandon Carter, Antonius van den Broek, and Humberto Fernández-Morán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Arthur Schuster ranks 83. Before him are Walter Reed, Manuel Curros Enríquez, Karl Moritz Schumann, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, and Ekaterine Gabashvili. After him are Ivan Tavčar, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Berthold Englisch, Thomas Dewing, and Abraham Berge. Among people deceased in 1934, Arthur Schuster ranks 130. Before him are Broncia Koller-Pinell, Jules Renkin, Toros Toramanian, José Santos Chocano, Majit Gafuri, and Hélène Boucher. After him are Bunzō Hayata, Orest Khvolson, Ferenc Móra, Alec B. Francis, Leonid Sobinov, and Aristarkh Belopolsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Schuster ranks 4,354 out of 6,142. Before him are Edgar Reinhardt (1914), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Tatjana Patitz (1966), Walter Giller (1927), Karin Büttner-Janz (1952), and Annelie Ehrhardt (1950). After him are Erich Borchmeyer (1905), Stefan Kießling (1984), Erich Rademacher (1901), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), Kevin Trapp (1990), and Lou Bega (1975).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Arthur Schuster ranks 88. Before him are Walther Müller (1905), Ralph Kronig (1904), Alfred Landé (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), and Hedwig Kohn (1887). After him are Pief Panofsky (1919), Ernst Ising (1900), Gregor Wentzel (1898), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), and Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948).

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