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Dirk Coster

1889 - 1950

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Dirk Coster (5 October 1889 – 12 February 1950) was a Dutch physicist. He was a professor of Physics and Meteorology at the University of Groningen. Coster was born in Amsterdam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dirk Coster has received more than 38,281 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Dirk Coster is the 579th most popular physicist (down from 544th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 557th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Dirk Coster has had the most page views in the with 4,249 views, followed by German (1,709), and Portuguese (1,022). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (31.36%), Tamil (21.11%), and Ukrainian (19.41%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Dirk Coster ranks 579 out of 851. Before him are James David Forbes, Antonio Pacinotti, Ludvig Faddeev, Jean Becquerel, Ole Jacob Broch, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. After him are Giuseppe Occhialini, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Charles W. Misner, José Celestino Mutis, Yakov Frenkel, and Franco Rasetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Dirk Coster ranks 192. Before him are Elmo Lincoln, Julius Skutnabb, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Ronald Fairbairn, János Garay, and Erwin Stresemann. After him are Erick-Oskar Hansen, Vera Karalli, Willi Baumeister, Georg Schrimpf, Vladimir Sokoloff, and Adrian Boult. Among people deceased in 1950, Dirk Coster ranks 125. Before him are Fats Navarro, Karin Michaëlis, Joseph, Duke of Parma, Alykul Osmonov, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ivan Shmelyov. After him are Konrad von Preysing, Pedro Parages, Adolf Wiklund, Frederic Lewy, Albert Ehrenstein, and Axeman of New Orleans.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Dirk Coster ranks 635 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Wolkers (1925), Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598), Daley Blind (1990), Peter R. de Vries (1956), Paulus Bor (1601), and Wubbo Ockels (1946). After him are Badr Hari (1984), Bas van Fraassen (1941), Frenkie de Jong (1997), Dirk Brouwer (1902), Tylman van Gameren (1632), and Jo Cals (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Dirk Coster ranks 20. Before him are Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Abraham Pais (1918), and Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876). After him are Antonius van den Broek (1870), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Jan Burgers (1895), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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