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Ernst Messerschmid

1945 - Today

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Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born 21 May 1945) is a German physicist and former astronaut. Born in Reutlingen, Germany, Messerschmid finished the Technisches Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1965. After two years of military service he studied physics at the University of Tübingen and Bonn, receiving a Diplom degree in 1972 and doctorate in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Messerschmid has received more than 57,170 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ernst Messerschmid is the 231st most popular astronaut (up from 242nd in 2019), the 5,203rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,685th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ernst Messerschmid ranks 231 out of 556. Before him are André Kuipers, Vladimir Vasyutin, Liu Yang, Taylor Wang, Robert A. Parker, and Yury Onufriyenko. After him are Mikhail Tyurin, Loren Acton, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, John Oliver Creighton, Nikolai Budarin, and Jean-Pierre Haigneré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Ernst Messerschmid ranks 539. Before him are Manuel Chaves, Susan Tyrrell, Paola Pigni, Javed Akhtar, Claude Barthélemy, and Ray Jackendoff. After him are Katya Paskaleva, Judith O'Dea, David Marr, Mohammed El Filali, Enver Hadžiabdić, and Ugo Ferrante.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Messerschmid ranks 5,203 out of 7,253. Before him are Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (1989), Uta Frith (1941), Georg Stollenwerk (1930), Marina Lewycka (1946), Maria Sander (1924), and Oleh Kuznetsov (1963). After him are Mario Theissen (1952), Walter Kaufmann (1921), Sabine Busch (1962), Karl Kreutzberg (1912), Ernst Klodwig (1903), and Joachim Winkelhock (1960).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Ernst Messerschmid ranks 5. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), Ulf Merbold (1941), Thomas Reiter (1958), and Hans Schlegel (1951). After him are Jean-Jacques Favier (1949), Jasmin Moghbeli (1983), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Ulrich Walter (1954), Gerhard Thiele (1953), and Alexander Gerst (1976).

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