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Erich Hückel

1896 - 1980

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Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896, Berlin – February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is mainly known for the Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions and the Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on π electron systems. Hückel was born in the Charlottenburg suburb of Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Hückel has received more than 88,006 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Erich Hückel is the 453rd most popular physicist (down from 413th in 2019), the 2,707th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,479th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Erich Hückel ranks 453 out of 851. Before him are Johannes Franz Hartmann, Lyman Spitzer, Hagen Kleinert, Louis Harold Gray, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, and Boris Podolsky. After him are Alan Guth, Marietta Blau, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Berta Karlik, William Watson, and Jules Jamin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Erich Hückel ranks 114. Before him are André Hunebelle, Richard Thorpe, Boris Podolsky, Na Hye-sok, Eduardo Lonardi, and Léonide Massine. After him are Fritz Heider, Anandamayi Ma, Richard Heidrich, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Józef Czapski, and Máté Zalka. Among people deceased in 1980, Erich Hückel ranks 117. Before him are Ernst Ocwirk, Alf Sjöberg, Hiroshi Inagaki, Toyen, Sherm Clark, and Franco Basaglia. After him are Barbara O'Neil, Pietro Nenni, Cecil Beaton, Justas Paleckis, Sanjay Gandhi, and Leopold Kielholz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Hückel ranks 2,707 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Slevogt (1868), Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (1891), Ewald Hering (1834), Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1664), Frederick of Saxony (1474), and Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz (1822). After him are Bernhard Windscheid (1817), John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1666), Sabina of Bavaria (1492), Sibel Kekilli (1980), Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), and Klaus Voormann (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Erich Hückel ranks 66. Before him are Walther Gerlach (1889), Johanna Budwig (1908), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walther Meissner (1882), and Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865). After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), and Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796).

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