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Emil Wolf

1922 - 2018

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Emil Wolf (July 30, 1922 – June 2, 2018) was a Czech-born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Wolf has received more than 81,350 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Wolf is the 738th most popular physicist (down from 672nd in 2019), the 691st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 567th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Wolf ranks 738 out of 717. Before him are Marcia Neugebauer, James Hartle, Daniel Kleppner, Jeffrey Goldstone, Robert Serber, and Abhay Ashtekar. After him are Sverker Johansson, Albert-László Barabási, Bertrand Halperin, Seth Neddermeyer, John Houghton, and Mary K. Gaillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Emil Wolf ranks 381. Before him are Kai Winding, Nicholas Katzenbach, Johnny Thomson, Turhan Bey, Helen Gurley Brown, and Billy Liddell. After him are Len Lesser, Mavis Gallant, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Eugenie Clark, Audrey Meadows, and Jean Porter. Among people deceased in 2018, Emil Wolf ranks 455. Before him are István Hevesi, Pavel Panov, Branko Grünbaum, Rafael Amador, Danny Kirwan, and Henri Dirickx. After him are Yuriy Kutsenko, Ann Gillis, Roy Clark, Saida Gunba, Roy Hargrove, and Jiichiro Date.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Emil Wolf ranks 691 out of 973. Before him are Pavel Horváth (1975), Milena Duchková (1952), Jiří Parma (1963), Alena Šeredová (1978), Jan Zahradil (1963), and Jan Polák (1981). After him are Radoslav Látal (1970), David Jarolím (1979), Karolína Plíšková (1992), Tomáš Řepka (1974), Jaroslav Sakala (1969), and Vladimír Růžička (1963).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Czechia

Among physicists born in Czechia, Emil Wolf ranks 5. Before him are Ernst Mach (1838), Peter Grünberg (1939), Christian Mayer (1719), and Franz Josef Gerstner (1756).

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