PHYSICIST

Hedwig Kohn

1887 - 1964

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Hedwig Kohn (5 April 1887 – 26 November 1964) was a physicist who was one of only three women (along Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer) to obtain habilitation (the qualification for university teaching) in physics in Germany before World War II. Born in Breslau in the German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland), she was forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime because she was Jewish. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hedwig Kohn has received more than 701,296 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hedwig Kohn is the 773rd most popular physicist (down from 655th in 2019), the 5,477th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,309th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hedwig Kohn ranks 773 out of 851. Before her are Shirley Ann Jackson, Edward C. Stone, Stanton T. Friedman, Erwin Hahn, Charles Sheffield, and Daulat Singh Kothari. After her are Walter Munk, Brian Cox, Jeffrey Goldstone, James M. Bardeen, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, and John Houghton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Hedwig Kohn ranks 273. Before her are Charles Marion, Olga Oelkers, Karl Neumer, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Harold Walden, and Cayetano Saporiti. After her are Joseph Plunkett, Lynn Fontanne, Carl-Friedrich Freiherr von Langen, Merritt Giffin, Kate Gillou, and Raymond Thorne. Among people deceased in 1964, Hedwig Kohn ranks 200. Before her are James Chapin, Edward Van Sloan, Adele Goldstine, Gracie Allen, Branislav Hrnjiček, and C. I. Lewis. After her are Frank Albertson, Norman Z. McLeod, Roscoe Pound, Fred Tootell, Kate Gillou, and Josef Šroubek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hedwig Kohn ranks 5,477 out of 7,253. Before her are Daniel Kehlmann (1975), Jan Carstenszoon (null), Willi Giesemann (1937), Katrin Göring-Eckardt (1966), Georg Volkert (1945), and Julia Fischer (1983). After her are Volker Bruch (1980), Doris Dörrie (1955), Helmut Braselmann (1911), Karim Bellarabi (1990), Henry Maske (1964), and Vera Zorina (1917).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Hedwig Kohn ranks 102. Before her are Walter Gordon (1893), Ernst Ising (1900), Arthur Schuster (1851), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Rolf Landauer (1927), and Jürgen Kurths (1953). After her are Werner Israel (1931), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Sabine Hossenfelder (1976), Katherine Freese (1957), and Gabriele Hegerl (1962).

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