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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 43,576 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gregor Wentzel is the 688th most popular physicist (down from 640th in 2019), the 4,517th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,992nd in 2019) and the 91st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gregor Wentzel ranks 688 out of 717. Before him are Leonard Mlodinow, Ernst Ising, Charles H. Bennett, Miguel Alcubierre, E. C. George Sudarshan, and John Clauser. After him are Alexei Starobinsky, Juris Upatnieks, Grigory Landsberg, Charles W. Misner, Harriet Brooks, and Peter Zoller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Gregor Wentzel ranks 234. Before him are John Loder, María Corda, Humberto Tomasina, Vilho Lampi, Constance Talmadge, and Jadwiga Smosarska. After him are Irving Rapper, Robert Keith, Konstantinos Dovas, Mario Mattoli, Cesare Merzagora, and Chesty Puller. Among people deceased in 1978, Gregor Wentzel ranks 203. Before him are Oliver Leese, Cyrille Adoula, Isidro Ayora, Edward Lindberg, František Šterc, and Adolf van der Voort van Zijp. After him are Kathryn McGuire, Lajos Keresztes, Jesús Glaría, Nagamichi Kuroda, Mauk Weber, and John Doeg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gregor Wentzel ranks 4,517 out of 6,142. Before him are Detlef Schrempf (1963), Thomas Helmer (1965), Karl Kreutzberg (1912), Heinrich Christian Boie (1744), Georg Thoma (1937), and Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727). After him are Norbert Nigbur (1948), Willibald Kreß (1906), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Wilhelm Leichum (1911), Friedel Lutz (1939), and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (1989).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gregor Wentzel ranks 91. Before him are Ursula Franklin (1921), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Hedwig Kohn (1887), Arthur Schuster (1851), Pief Panofsky (1919), and Ernst Ising (1900). After him are Jürgen Kurths (1953), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Rudolf Haag (1922), Werner Israel (1931), and Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886).

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