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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 86,359 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Wolf is the 790th most popular physicist (down from 738th in 2019), the 815th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 691st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Emil Wolf ranks 790 out of 851. Before him are Daniel Kleppner, John Pendry, Robert L. Forward, Ayşe Erzan, Werner Israel, and Léon Rosenfeld. After him are Cumrun Vafa, Yash Pal, Egon Orowan, Sarah Frances Whiting, Abhay Ashtekar, and Robert Detweiler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Emil Wolf ranks 425. Before him are Redd Foxx, Andy Phillip, Joan Copeland, William Schallert, Willi Heeks, and George R. Price. After him are Dick King-Smith, Leslie Marr, Bert I. Gordon, Johnny Thomson, John B. Anderson, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky. Among people deceased in 2018, Emil Wolf ranks 498. Before him are Jim Neidhart, Aldo Tarlao, Andrzej Fischer, Peter Masterson, Bassano Staffieri, and Antonio Munguía. After him are Luisa Cuesta, Saida Gunba, Carla Marangoni, James Dunbar, Alan Geldard, and Horace Ashenfelter.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Emil Wolf ranks 815 out of 1,200. Before him are Ladislav Vízek (1955), Pavel Složil (1955), Radoslav Látal (1970), Petr Němec (1957), Josef Horešovský (1946), and David Jarolím (1979). After him are Ivo Ulich (1974), Jan Fiala (1956), Jiří Skobla (1930), Jiří Parma (1963), Božena Srncová (1925), and Jan Polák (1981).

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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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