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Fritz London

1900 - 1954

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Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954) was a German born physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces) are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz London has received more than 162,427 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Fritz London is the 364th most popular chemist (down from 328th in 2019), the 557th most popular biography from Poland (down from 472nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fritz London ranks 364 out of 602. Before him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Nikolay Zelinsky, Otto Schott, Paul Walden, Paul Héroult, and Paul Ulrich Villard. After him are Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Karl Ernst Claus, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Alexander William Williamson, Edward Calvin Kendall, and Hugo Erdmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Fritz London ranks 125. Before him are Alfred Newman, Luigi Longo, Leo Löwenthal, Franz Neumann, Hans Stuck, and René Crevel. After him are Alessandro Blasetti, Alexander Novikov, Victor Young, Mary Cartwright, Victor Kugler, and Xavier Cugat. Among people deceased in 1954, Fritz London ranks 62. Before him are Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, Herms Niel, Thành Thái, Franz Neumann, Yehuda Ashlag, and José Millán-Astray. After him are Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Onofre Marimón, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Friedrich Meinecke.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fritz London ranks 557 out of 1,694. Before him are Johann Schobert (1720), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Emil Krebs (1867), Jan Łaski (1499), Olga Boznańska (1865), and Maryla Rodowicz (1945). After him are Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715), Stanisław Poniatowski (1676), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), Stanisław Kania (1927), Józef Brandt (1841), and Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1801).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Fritz London ranks 15. Before him are Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Richard Abegg (1869), and Sendivogius (1566). After him are Hugo Erdmann (1862), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Jan Czochralski (1885), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Alfred Stock (1876), and Heinrich Caro (1834).

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