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Hans Kramers

1894 - 1952

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Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers (17 December 1894 – 24 April 1952) was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter and made important contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Kramers has received more than 121,049 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Hans Kramers is the 352nd most popular physicist (up from 364th in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 278th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Kramers ranks 352 out of 717. Before him are Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, and Galileo Ferraris. After him are William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Walter H. Schottky, Robert B. Laughlin, and Abram Ioffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Hans Kramers ranks 79. Before him are Friedrich Hossbach, Erwin Schulhoff, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, José Carlos Mariátegui, Wäinö Aaltonen, and Francisco Craveiro Lopes. After him are Oskar Klein, René Fonck, Trygve Gulbranssen, Meher Baba, Jacques Henri Lartigue, and Albert Leo Schlageter. Among people deceased in 1952, Hans Kramers ranks 48. Before him are Jigme Wangchuck, Kurt Schumacher, William Fox, Michael Rostovtzeff, Efim Bogoljubov, and Luigi Fagioli. After him are Princess Hilda of Nassau, Viktor Chernov, Louise d'Orléans, Bernard Lyot, Hiranuma Kiichirō, and Albert Forster.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hans Kramers ranks 263 out of 1,427. Before him are Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597), William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1622), Constantijn Huygens (1596), Anthony van Diemen (1593), and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1768). After him are Wim Suurbier (1945), Wim Hof (1959), Joop Zoetemelk (1946), Abe Lenstra (1920), Adriaen de Vries (1556), and Jozef Israëls (1824).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Hans Kramers ranks 14. Before him are Frits Zernike (1888), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Simon van der Meer (1925), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), and Gerard 't Hooft (1946). After him are Hendrik Casimir (1909), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Dirk Coster (1889), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), and Jan Burgers (1895).

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