PHYSICIST

Ernst Ruska

1906 - 1988

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Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈʁʊskaː] ; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Ruska has received more than 283,732 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Ernst Ruska is the 91st most popular physicist (down from 81st in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Germany (up from 304th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Physicist.

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who is most famous for his invention of the electron microscope.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernst Ruska ranks 91 out of 851. Before him are Victor Francis Hess, Albert A. Michelson, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Clinton Davisson, Carl Zeiss, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber. After him are Leo Szilard, Peter Higgs, Emil Lenz, Gustaf Dalén, Aage Bohr, and William Rowan Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ernst Ruska ranks 24. Before him are Sergei Korolev, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Hans Bethe, and Roberto Rossellini. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Ilse Koch, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Soichiro Honda, Ed Gein, and Hermann Fegelein. Among people deceased in 1988, Ernst Ruska ranks 5. Before him are Enzo Ferrari, Georgy Malenkov, Richard Feynman, and Nico. After him are Valery Legasov, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Robert A. Heinlein, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chet Baker, and Roy Orbison.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Ruska ranks 290 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Irma Grese (1923), Carl Zeiss (1816), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804). After him are Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Hans Memling (1435), Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Behaim (1459), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), and Karl May (1842).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ernst Ruska ranks 15. Before him are Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Johannes Stark (1874), Otto von Guericke (1602), Carl Zeiss (1816), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804). After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), James Franck (1882), Julius von Mayer (1814), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Walther Bothe (1891).

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