1882 - 1935
Amalie Emmy Noether (US: , UK: ; German: [ˈnøːtɐ]; 23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She discovered Noether's First and Second Theorem, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmy Noether has received more than 1,478,673 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Emmy Noether is the 40th most popular mathematician (up from 43rd in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Germany (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Mathematician.
Emmy Noether is most famous for her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. She was the first woman to be awarded a full professorship at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
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Among mathematicians, Emmy Noether ranks 40 out of 828. Before her are Gerolamo Cardano, Gottlob Frege, Luca Pacioli, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Ada Lovelace, and Charles Sanders Peirce. After her are George Boole, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Johann Bernoulli, Apollonius of Perga, Archytas, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.
1501 - 1576
HPI: 79.77
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1848 - 1925
HPI: 79.29
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1445 - 1517
HPI: 79.17
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1805 - 1859
HPI: 78.96
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1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
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1839 - 1914
HPI: 78.47
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1882 - 1935
HPI: 78.38
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1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
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408 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 78.17
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1667 - 1748
HPI: 78.07
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262 BC - 190 BC
HPI: 77.81
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428 BC - 347 BC
HPI: 77.79
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1850 - 1891
HPI: 77.34
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Among people born in 1882, Emmy Noether ranks 13. Before her are Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Ion Antonescu, Günther von Kluge, and Edward Hopper. After her are Max Born, Lili Elbe, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Kurt von Schleicher, Melanie Klein, and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1935, Emmy Noether ranks 6. Before her are Kazimir Malevich, Alfred Dreyfus, T. E. Lawrence, Fernando Pessoa, and Paul Signac. After her are Alban Berg, Józef Piłsudski, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Arthur Henderson, Astrid of Sweden, and Auguste Escoffier.
1882 - 1973
HPI: 80.61
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1882 - 1949
HPI: 79.38
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1882 - 1949
HPI: 78.73
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1882 - 1946
HPI: 78.59
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1882 - 1944
HPI: 78.58
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1882 - 1967
HPI: 78.48
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1882 - 1935
HPI: 78.38
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1882 - 1970
HPI: 78.10
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1882 - 1931
HPI: 77.97
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1882 - 1951
HPI: 77.77
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1882 - 1934
HPI: 77.37
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1882 - 1960
HPI: 77.16
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1882 - 1944
HPI: 77.02
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1879 - 1935
HPI: 82.00
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1859 - 1935
HPI: 81.57
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1888 - 1935
HPI: 80.79
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1888 - 1935
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1863 - 1935
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1882 - 1935
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1885 - 1935
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1867 - 1935
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1857 - 1935
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1863 - 1935
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1905 - 1935
HPI: 76.37
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1847 - 1935
HPI: 76.00
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Among people born in Germany, Emmy Noether ranks 177 out of 5,289. Before her are Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Werner von Siemens (1816), and Levi Strauss (1829). After her are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Jacob Grimm (1785), Edith Stein (1891), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Conrad III of Germany (1093), and Wilhelm Canaris (1887).
1795 - 1861
HPI: 78.57
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1497 - 1545
HPI: 78.57
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1818 - 1906
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1683 - 1737
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1816 - 1892
HPI: 78.46
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1829 - 1902
HPI: 78.43
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1882 - 1935
HPI: 78.38
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1729 - 1781
HPI: 78.36
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1785 - 1863
HPI: 78.32
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1891 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
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1850 - 1918
HPI: 78.30
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1093 - 1152
HPI: 78.27
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1887 - 1945
HPI: 78.26
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Among mathematicians born in Germany, Emmy Noether ranks 6. Before her are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Gottlob Frege (1848), and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805). After her are Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Regiomontanus (1436).
1777 - 1855
HPI: 89.18
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1646 - 1716
HPI: 88.60
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1826 - 1866
HPI: 83.87
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1848 - 1925
HPI: 79.29
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1805 - 1859
HPI: 78.96
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1882 - 1935
HPI: 78.38
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1540 - 1610
HPI: 76.60
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1815 - 1897
HPI: 76.52
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1790 - 1868
HPI: 75.73
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1784 - 1846
HPI: 75.67
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1831 - 1916
HPI: 75.43
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1436 - 1476
HPI: 75.10
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