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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 44,159 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hertha Sponer is the 601st most popular physicist (up from 602nd in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from Poland (down from 819th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hertha Sponer ranks 601 out of 717Before her are Joan Feynman, Michael Fisher, Lawrence M. Krauss, William Astbury, Harold Agnew, and Stuart Hameroff. After her are Heinrich Kayser, Evelyn Fox Keller, Adriaan Fokker, Theodore Lyman IV, Walther Müller, and Paul Scherrer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Hertha Sponer ranks 190Before her are Carl Westergren, Max Valier, Frank Foss, Edmund Wilson, Fredric Wertham, and Shemp Howard. After her are Josef Uridil, Ion Barbu, Geo Milev, Ben Sharpsteen, Ali Mansur, and Greta Johansson. Among people deceased in 1968, Hertha Sponer ranks 155Before her are René Navarre, Hugo Haas, Mervyn Peake, Antonio Pietrangeli, Jess Willard, and Manuel Bandeira. After her are Mike Spence, Dorothy Garrod, Dan Duryea, Käthe Kruse, Albert Dekker, and Giuseppe Lepori.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 870 out of 1,454Before her are Fritz Stern (1926), Otto Toeplitz (1881), Heinrich Göppert (1800), Max Berg (1870), Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), and Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799). After her are Heinrich von Stephan (1831), Jan T. Gross (1947), Fritz Laband (1925), John Shalikashvili (1936), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), and Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884).

Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

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