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Humberto Fernández-Morán

1924 - 1999

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Humberto Fernández-Morán Villalobos (18 February 1924 – 17 March 1999) was a Venezuelan research scientist born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, known for inventing the diamond knife or scalpel, significantly advancing the development of electromagnetic lenses for electron microscopy based on superconducting technology, and many other scientific contributions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Humberto Fernández-Morán has received more than 40,855 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Humberto Fernández-Morán is the 697th most popular physicist (down from 665th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 70th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 697 out of 851. Before him are Kazuhiko Nishijima, Leonard Mlodinow, Alfred Ewing, Yvette Cauchois, Leonid Sedov, and Zoltán Lajos Bay. After him are E. C. George Sudarshan, Alvin M. Weinberg, Elda Emma Anderson, Helen Quinn, Gregor Wentzel, and Stuart Hameroff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 371. Before him are Mel Patton, Lennart Samuelsson, Jackie Milburn, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Klaus Junge, and Leo Buscaglia. After him are Claude Netter, Roy Bentley, Audouin Dollfus, Béla Zsitnik, Eugene Dynkin, and Robert Körner. Among people deceased in 1999, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 219. Before him are Maigonis Valdmanis, Charlie Byrd, Eric Wolf, Vladimir Yashchenko, Yvette Cauchois, and Leonid Sedov. After him are Néstor Togneri, Frank Lubin, Georges Miez, Robert Kramer, Raúl Silva Henríquez, and Christopher Cockerell.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 71 out of 183. Before him are José María Carreño (1792), Henrique Capriles (1972), Ignacio Velasco (1929), Edgar Sanabria (1911), Rafael Cadenas (1930), and Ignacio Andrade (1839). After him are Miguel Otero Silva (1908), Victorino Márquez Bustillos (1858), Eugenio Montejo (1938), Pedro Gual Escandón (1783), Julián Castro (1810), and Pastor Maldonado (1985).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Venezuela

Among physicists born in Venezuela, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 1. 

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