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Fritjof Capra

1939 - Today

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Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American author, physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist. In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritjof Capra has received more than 451,425 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Fritjof Capra is the 316th most popular physicist (down from 293rd in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from Austria (up from 319th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Physicist.

Fritjof Capra is most famous for his book The Tao of Physics, in which he argues that the findings of modern physics support the Eastern spiritual philosophy of Taoism.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Fritjof Capra ranks 316 out of 851Before him are Moshé Feldenkrais, James Jeans, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John Robert Schrieffer, Jan Ingenhousz, and Ludwig Prandtl. After him are Robert B. Laughlin, Ernst Chladni, William Whewell, John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Henri Pitot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Fritjof Capra ranks 86Before him are Yael Dayan, Sidney Altman, Warda Al-Jazairia, Ruggero Deodato, Silvana Armenulić, and Ion Țiriac. After him are Lucia Popp, Peter Bogdanovich, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jānis Lūsis, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, and Daniel C. Tsui.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Fritjof Capra ranks 313 out of 1,424Before him are Hermine Braunsteiner (1919), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Erik Jan Hanussen (1889), Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886), Karl Silberbauer (1911), and Maria Theresa of Austria (1801). After him are Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870), Otto Hofmann (1896), Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921), Gerhard Berger (1959), Lotte Lenya (1898), and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793).

Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Fritjof Capra ranks 11Before him are Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Victor Weisskopf (1908), and Walter Kohn (1923). After him are Marietta Blau (1894), Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), and Julius Wess (1934).