1895 - 1968
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, Hertha Sponer ranks 601 out of 717. Before 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.
1927 - 2020
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 595
1931 - 2021
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 596
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 597
1898 - 1961
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 598
1921 - 2013
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 599
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 600
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 601
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 602
1936 - 2023
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 603
1887 - 1972
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 604
1874 - 1954
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 605
1905 - 1979
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 606
1890 - 1969
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 607
Among people born in 1895, Hertha Sponer ranks 190. Before 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 155. Before 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.
1895 - 1958
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 184
1895 - 1930
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 185
1895 - 1989
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 186
1895 - 1972
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 187
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 188
1895 - 1955
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 189
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 190
1895 - 1962
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 191
1895 - 1961
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 192
1895 - 1925
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 193
1895 - 1980
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 194
1895 - 1974
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 195
1895 - 1978
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 196
1877 - 1968
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 149
1901 - 1968
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 150
1911 - 1968
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 151
1919 - 1968
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 152
1881 - 1968
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 153
1886 - 1968
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 154
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 155
1936 - 1968
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 156
1892 - 1968
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 157
1907 - 1968
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 158
1883 - 1968
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 159
1905 - 1968
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 160
1902 - 1968
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 161
Among people born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 870 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1926 - 2016
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 864
1881 - 1940
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 865
1800 - 1884
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 866
1870 - 1947
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 867
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 868
1799 - 1874
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 869
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 870
1831 - 1897
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 871
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 872
1925 - 1982
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 873
1936 - 2011
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 874
1796 - 1825
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 875
1884 - 1937
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 876
Among physicists born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 17. Before her are Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Max Abraham (1875).
1803 - 1879
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 11
1914 - 1984
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 12
1848 - 1916
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 13
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 14
1860 - 1930
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 15
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 16
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 17