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PHYSICIST

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 311,849 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker is the 280th most popular physicist (down from 269th in 2019), the 1,169th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,098th in 2019) and the 41st 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 280 out of 717Before him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Masatoshi Koshiba, Leo Esaki, Zhores Alferov, Otto Robert Frisch, and Jan Ingenhousz. After him are Antoine César Becquerel, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Ivar Giaever, George Smoot, Ernest Walton, and Ludwig Prandtl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 63Before him are John Payne, Patrick White, Cornel Wilde, Isser Harel, Salvador Luria, and José Ferrer. After him are Hermann Graf, Duško Popov, Lev Gumilyov, Herbert C. Brown, Pat Nixon, and Julia Child. Among people deceased in 2007, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 41Before him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Arthur Kornberg, Paul Watzlawick, Jane Wyman, and Robert Jordan. After him are Jean-Claude Brialy, Gaston Thorn, Joe Zawinul, Oscar Peterson, Bob Denard, and Ettore Sottsass.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 1,169 out of 6,142Before him are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709), Maria Reiche (1903), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), Albert of Riga (1165), and Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach (1724). After him are Theobald Boehm (1794), Werner Haase (1900), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Helmut Rahn (1929), Theodor Storm (1817), and Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ranks 41Before him are Georg Bednorz (1950), John B. Goodenough (1922), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Rainer Weiss (1932), and Jack Steinberger (1921). After him are Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), Friedrich Hund (1896), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Christoph Scheiner (1575), and Pascual Jordan (1902).