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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

1912 - 2007

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Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈvaɪtsɛkɐ] ; 28 June 1912 – 28 April 2007) was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker has received more than 335,446 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker is the 286th most popular physicist (down from 280th in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,169th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Physicist.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker is most famous for being a German physicist and philosopher. He is also known for his peace activism and his involvement in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 286 out of 851. Before him are Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Victor Weisskopf, Walter Kohn, Anthony James Leggett, and Steven Chu. After him are Christoph Scheiner, Ettore Majorana, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, and Anne L'Huillier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 59. Before him are Gordon Parks, Cornel Wilde, Don Siegel, John Payne, Elsa Morante, and Pedro Armendáriz. After him are Ertuğrul Osman, Salvador Luria, Hermann Graf, Rodolfo Gucci, Herbert C. Brown, and Georg Solti. Among people deceased in 2007, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 41. Before him are Momofuku Ando, Alan MacDiarmid, Henri Troyat, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and Lois Maxwell. After him are Jean-Claude Brialy, Paul Watzlawick, Norman Mailer, Gaston Thorn, John Backus, and E. Howard Hunt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 1,114 out of 7,253. Before him are Petrus Apianus (1495), Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Prince Henry of Prussia (1862), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Lale Andersen (1905), and Gerhard Herzberg (1904). After him are Walther Flemming (1843), Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), and Friedrich Sertürner (1783).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 42. Before him are Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), Rainer Weiss (1932), Max Delbrück (1906), August Kundt (1839), and Carl von Linde (1842). After him are Christoph Scheiner (1575), Friedrich Hund (1896), Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and Ernst Chladni (1756).

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