BIOLOGIST

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

1916 - 2010

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Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (19 December 1916 – 25 March 2010) was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann has received more than 134,802 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann is the 253rd most popular biologist (down from 211th in 2019), the 1,987th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,791st in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.51

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Over the past year Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann has had the most page views in the with 16,831 views, followed by English (14,880), and Spanish (6,151). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Asturian (89.40%), Southern Azerbaijani (57.55%), and Estonian (54.67%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 253 out of 1,097. Before her are Martin Chalfie, Johann Baptist von Spix, Henri Milne-Edwards, Richard Henderson, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and Morten Thrane Brünnich. After her are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Eduard Rüppell, Michael Rosbash, Carol W. Greider, and Sergei Winogradsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 83. Before her are Walt Whitman Rostow, Pérez Prado, Ray Conniff, Vladimir Demikhov, José Manuel Moreno, and Ramón José Velásquez. After her are Shirley Jackson, Pierre Messmer, Jane Jacobs, Luigi Comencini, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, and Lilian, Princess of Réthy. Among people deceased in 2010, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 80. Before her are Günter Behnisch, Alexander McQueen, Teddy Scholten, Laurent Fignon, Johan Ferrier, and Peter Graves. After her are Pierre Hadot, Irvin Kershner, Maurice Wilkes, Nicolas Hayek, Alexander Haig, and Luis Molowny.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 1,987 out of 7,253. Before her are Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia (1000), Walter Buch (1883), Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602), Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (1305), Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891), and Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901). After her are Christian II, Elector of Saxony (1583), Jan Assmann (1938), Edmund Veesenmayer (1904), Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg (1332), Max Koegel (1895), and Govert Flinck (1615).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 40. Before her are Lorenz Oken (1779), Willi Hennig (1913), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Carl Correns (1864), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and Johann Baptist von Spix (1781). After her are Eduard Rüppell (1794), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794).

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