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George Uhlenbeck

1900 - 1988

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George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist, known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He is most famous for co-developing the concept of electron spin, alongside Samuel Goudsmit, in 1925. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Uhlenbeck has received more than 161,466 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. George Uhlenbeck is the 357th most popular physicist (up from 365th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Indonesia (up from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Indonesian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Uhlenbeck ranks 357 out of 851. Before him are Stephen Hales, Yakov Zeldovich, Heinrich Geißler, Galileo Ferraris, Auguste Bravais, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. After him are George Francis FitzGerald, Walter H. Schottky, Manfred von Ardenne, Gaston Planté, Charles Fabry, and Abram Ioffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, George Uhlenbeck ranks 77. Before him are Wilhelm Rediess, William Heinesen, Jean Arthur, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, and Robert Desnos. After him are Marc Allégret, Eduardo De Filippo, Joseph Needham, Herbert Bayer, Herberts Cukurs, and Ernst Neufert. Among people deceased in 1988, George Uhlenbeck ranks 59. Before him are Antonín Puč, Dino Grandi, Heo Jeong, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, and John Carradine. After him are Sergey Gorshkov, Vladimír Menšík, Lev Pontryagin, Bluma Zeigarnik, Henry Murray, and Branko Zebec.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, George Uhlenbeck ranks 18 out of 158. Before him are Enrique of Malacca (1495), Mohammad Hatta (1902), Gajah Mada (1290), Jan Toorop (1858), Kartini (1879), and Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925). After him are Diponegoro (1785), Dharmakirti (700), Ma'ruf Amin (1943), Anggun (1972), Lil Dagover (1887), and Hendrik Brouwer (1581).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Indonesia

Among physicists born in Indonesia, George Uhlenbeck ranks 1. After him are Adriaan Fokker (1887).

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