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Hertha Sponer

1895 - 1968

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Hertha Sponer (1 September 1895 – 27 February 1968) was a German physicist and chemist who contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics and was the first woman on the physics faculty of Duke University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hertha Sponer has received more than 49,813 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hertha Sponer is the 651st most popular physicist (down from 601st in 2019), the 991st most popular biography from Poland (down from 870th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hertha Sponer ranks 651 out of 851. Before her are Frederick Guthrie, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Ali Javan, William Higinbotham, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, and Julius Wess. After her are Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, César Lattes, Michael Berry, Lee Smolin, Franz Josef Gerstner, and Maurice Goldhaber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Hertha Sponer ranks 219. Before her are Ion Barbu, Louis Calhern, Christian Herter, Fedor Ozep, Paavo Johansson, and José María Peña. After her are Eduard Bagritsky, Luigi Cevenini, Gerald Patterson, Edmund Wilson, André Chéron, and Pauline Pfeiffer. Among people deceased in 1968, Hertha Sponer ranks 179. Before her are Harold D. Babcock, Manuel Bandeira, René Navarre, Archie Mayo, Dan Duryea, and Leo Sexton. After her are Cuno Hoffmeister, Hugo Benioff, Arnulf Øverland, Nick Adams, Giuseppe Lepori, and Ellen Gleditsch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 991 out of 1,694. Before her are Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Łukasz Piszczek (1985), Adalbert Krueger (1832), Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899), Heinrich Caro (1834), and Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636). After her are Ernst Degner (1931), Grażyna Szapołowska (1953), Georg Sterzinsky (1936), Alexander Abusch (1902), Urszula Dudziak (1943), and Walter Krueger (1881).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 17. Before her are Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Max Abraham (1875).

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