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Friedrich Hund

1896 - 1997

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Friedrich Hermann Hund (4 February 1896 – 31 March 1997) was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules. He is known for the Hund's rules to predict the electron configuration of chemical elements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Hund has received more than 185,464 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Friedrich Hund is the 304th most popular physicist (down from 289th in 2019), the 1,368th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,282nd in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Hund ranks 304 out of 717. Before him are Valentin Ceaușescu, Paul-Jacques Curie, Pierre Louis Dulong, Peter Mansfield, William Whewell, and Hélène Langevin-Joliot. After him are Kenneth G. Wilson, Edmond Becquerel, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Stephen Hales, Jean-Charles de Borda, and Gerard 't Hooft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Friedrich Hund ranks 61. Before him are Ida Noddack, Jimmy Doolittle, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Julien Duvivier, Norodom Suramarit, and Aleksei Antonov. After him are Henri de Lubac, Soghomon Tehlirian, Michael Balint, Kenji Miyazawa, Karl August Wittfogel, and Kazimierz Kuratowski. Among people deceased in 1997, Friedrich Hund ranks 65. Before him are Narciso Yepes, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Marco Ferreri, Masaru Ibuka, André Franquin, and Roland Topor. After him are Barbara, Stig Anderson, Fela Kuti, Yevgeny Khaldei, Son Sen, and George Wald.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Hund ranks 1,368 out of 6,142. Before him are Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Melitta Bentz (1873), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), and William I, Elector of Hesse (1743). After him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), Max Schreck (1879), and Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Friedrich Hund ranks 44. Before him are Klaus Fuchs (1911), Rainer Weiss (1932), Jack Steinberger (1921), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and Ernst Chladni (1756). After him are Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Pascual Jordan (1902), August Kundt (1839), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), and Moritz von Jacobi (1801).

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