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Erwin Hahn

1921 - 2016

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Erwin Louis Hahn (June 9, 1921 – September 20, 2016) was an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erwin Hahn has received more than 57,834 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Hahn is the 720th most popular physicist (down from 687th in 2019), the 9,679th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,567th in 2019) and the 157th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Erwin Hahn ranks 720 out of 717Before him are Edward C. Stone, C. R. Hagen, Howard P. Robertson, Ronald Drever, John Pendry, and Kees Schouhamer Immink. After him are Raymond Gosling, C. V. Boys, Rudolf Haag, Léon Rosenfeld, Sidney Coleman, and Narinder Singh Kapany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Erwin Hahn ranks 375Before him are Patricia Wrightson, Cliff Bourland, François Picard, Brian Moore, Kurt Marti, and Johnny Otis. After him are Geoffrey Crossley, Ron Greenwood, Muriel Pavlow, Giuseppe Moro, James Cooke Brown, and Gilbert Stork. Among people deceased in 2016, Erwin Hahn ranks 447Before him are Kiichirō Furukawa, Francisco Flores Pérez, Klaus Siebert, William Schallert, Gunnel Vallquist, and Anatoli Isayev. After him are Fyvush Finkel, Eddie Keizan, Rudolf Haag, Tyrus Wong, Cléber Santana, and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erwin Hahn ranks 9,679 out of 18,182Before him are Dorothy Abbott (1920), Mindy Sterling (1953), Paul Feig (1962), Ronnie Ray Smith (1949), Marguerite De La Motte (1902), and Daniel Goldin (1940). After him are John Delaney (1963), Lawrence Bender (1957), Jenna Presley (1987), Allison Tolman (1981), Tom Price (1933), and Nia Long (1970).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Erwin Hahn ranks 157Before him are Seymour Benzer (1921), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), Robert Bacher (1905), Edward C. Stone (1936), C. R. Hagen (1937), and Howard P. Robertson (1903). After him are Sidney Coleman (1937), Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), James Hartle (1939), Daniel Kleppner (1932), and Robert Serber (1909).