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Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

1886 - 1957

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Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ( CHAR-wel; 5 April 1886 – 3 July 1957) was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II. He was involved in the development of radar and infra-red guidance systems. He was sceptical of the first reports of the enemy's V-weapons programme. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell has received more than 490,456 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell is the 809th most popular physicist (down from 751st in 2019), the 5,773rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,019th in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 809 out of 851. Before him are Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Stephen L. Adler, Karl Taylor Compton, Ernest Moniz, William Penney, Baron Penney, and Edward Andrade. After him are Herbert Goldstein, Carlos Frenk, J. Richard Gott, Richard A. Muller, Marcia Barbosa, and Albert-László Barabási.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 304. Before him are Pauline Bush, Charlie Ruggles, Maggie Laubser, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Clarence Birdseye, and Tommy Gorman. After him are Luis Alberni, Gus Kahn, Zoe Akins, Rameshwari Nehru, Hobart Cavanaugh, and Inez Milholland. Among people deceased in 1957, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 226. Before him are Charles Brabin, Bedřich Šupčík, Nils Silfverskiöld, Hughie Gallacher, Colin Carruthers, and Billy Bevan. After him is Charles King.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 5,773 out of 7,253. Before him are Ute Geweniger (1964), Wolfgang Mager (1952), Marcus Nispel (1963), Ralf Rothmann (1953), Jörg Woithe (1963), and Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich (1960). After him are Siegbert Horn (1950), Karoline Herfurth (1984), Katrin Dörre-Heinig (1961), Rudi Bommer (1957), Ömer Toprak (1989), and Wilfried Gröbner (1949).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 104. Before him are Arthur Schuster (1851), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Rolf Landauer (1927), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Hedwig Kohn (1887), and Werner Israel (1931). After him are Sabine Hossenfelder (1976), Katherine Freese (1957), and Gabriele Hegerl (1962).

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