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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 198,678 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Friedrich Hund is the 291st most popular physicist (up from 304th in 2019), the 1,144th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,368th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Friedrich Hund ranks 291 out of 851. Before him are Steven Chu, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Christoph Scheiner, Ettore Majorana, Yuri Oganessian, and Anna Mani. After him are Anne L'Huillier, Nevill Francis Mott, Pascual Jordan, Qian Xuesen, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Armen Sarkissian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Friedrich Hund ranks 53. Before him are Robert S. Mulliken, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikolay Semyonov, André Masson, Wallace Carothers, and Paulino Alcántara. After him are Léon Theremin, Kenji Miyazawa, Soghomon Tehlirian, David Wechsler, Elsa Triolet, and Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1997, Friedrich Hund ranks 55. Before him are Nikolai Tikhonov, Shoichi Yokoi, John Denver, Louis, Prince Napoléon, Charles Brenton Huggins, and Bulat Okudzhava. After him are Stéphane Grappelli, Masaru Ibuka, Colonel Tom Parker, Roland Topor, Georg Solti, and Gerda Christian.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Hund ranks 1,144 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), Julius Richard Petri (1852), and Uli Hoeneß (1952). After him are Otto Georg Thierack (1889), Johannes Althusius (1563), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Lorenz von Stein (1815), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), and Karl von Bülow (1846).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Friedrich Hund ranks 44. Before him are Rainer Weiss (1932), Max Delbrück (1906), August Kundt (1839), Carl von Linde (1842), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), and Christoph Scheiner (1575). After him are Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), John B. Goodenough (1922), and Franz Ernst Neumann (1798).

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