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Carl Gustav Hempel

1905 - 1997

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Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gustav Hempel has received more than 272,023 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Carl Gustav Hempel is the 311th most popular philosopher (up from 416th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,065th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Philosopher.

Carl Gustav Hempel is most famous for designing the Nazi flag.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Carl Gustav Hempel ranks 311 out of 1,267. Before him are Henri Lefebvre, Robert Nozick, Hwang Jini, Antoine Arnauld, Giovanni Gentile, and Félix Guattari. After him are Rudolf Bultmann, Ram Mohan Roy, Nicolai Hartmann, Jacobus Arminius, Gemistus Pletho, and Judith Butler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Carl Gustav Hempel ranks 28. Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, Emilio Segrè, Gerard Kuiper, Władysław Gomułka, and Raymond Cattell. After him are Dalton Trumbo, Ulf von Euler, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Marian Rejewski, Max Schmeling, and Otto Preminger. Among people deceased in 1997, Carl Gustav Hempel ranks 32. Before him are Helenio Herrera, Dodi Fayed, Burgess Meredith, Aldo Rossi, Clyde Tombaugh, and Robert Mitchum. After him are Edward Mills Purcell, Dora Maar, Zoltán Czibor, Chien-Shiung Wu, Willem de Kooning, and Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Hempel ranks 655 out of 7,253. Before him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Magda Schneider (1909), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Werner Forssmann (1904), Werner Mölders (1913), and Andreas Baader (1943). After him are Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), and George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Carl Gustav Hempel ranks 42. Before him are Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Hans Jonas (1903), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Bruno Bauer (1809), Johann Reuchlin (1455), and Franz Brentano (1838). After him are Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Rudolf Otto (1869), Moritz Schlick (1882), Moses Hess (1812), Hermann Cohen (1842), and David Strauss (1808).

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