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Gregor Wentzel

1898 - 1978

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Gregor Wentzel (17 February 1898 – 12 August 1978) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregor Wentzel has received more than 47,517 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gregor Wentzel is the 701st most popular physicist (down from 688th in 2019), the 4,893rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,503rd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gregor Wentzel ranks 701 out of 851. Before him are Zoltán Lajos Bay, Humberto Fernández-Morán, E. C. George Sudarshan, Alvin M. Weinberg, Elda Emma Anderson, and Helen Quinn. After him are Stuart Hameroff, Marcia Neugebauer, Aleksandr Andronov, Vilho Väisälä, Stanley Mandelstam, and Ernst Stueckelberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Gregor Wentzel ranks 236. Before him are Fridrikh Ermler, Nalini Bala Devi, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Maryse Bastié, Alfredo Duhalde, and Charles Bouvier. After him are Ferreira de Castro, Leonard Howell, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Maria Klenova, Scott O'Dell, and Fedde Schurer. Among people deceased in 1978, Gregor Wentzel ranks 197. Before him are Ralph Metcalfe, Greta Johansson, Maurice Carême, Paul Yü Pin, Oscar Homolka, and Isidro Ayora. After him are Malvina Reynolds, Cyrille Adoula, Will Geer, Jorge Icaza Coronel, Jesús Glaría, and Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gregor Wentzel ranks 4,893 out of 7,253. Before him are Klaus Schmidt (1953), Helmut Kremers (1949), Gorch Fock (1880), Carl Bolle (1821), Curt Siodmak (1902), and Hans Nowak (1937). After him are Michael Bella (1945), Herbert Neumann (1953), Hans Deppe (1897), Ria Baran (1922), Kiki Smith (1954), and Marita Lange (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gregor Wentzel ranks 93. Before him are Alfred Landé (1888), Ralph Kronig (1904), Hans Reissner (1874), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769). After him are Pief Panofsky (1919), Rudolf Haag (1922), Walter Gordon (1893), Ernst Ising (1900), Arthur Schuster (1851), and Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948).

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