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PHYSICIST

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 33,914 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Humberto Fernández-Morán is the 665th most popular physicist (down from 629th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 64th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 665 out of 717Before him are Arthur Schuster, Orest Khvolson, Max Tegmark, Stanley Mandelstam, Brandon Carter, and Antonius van den Broek. After him are Vilho Väisälä, Julian Barbour, Ash Carter, Egon Orowan, Pief Panofsky, and Joseph Polchinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 348Before him are Mel Patton, Slim Harpo, Vladimir Bogomolov, Attilio Giovannini, Siiri Rantanen, and Mary Ford. After him are Yvonne Brill, Pierre Adam, César Ruminski, George Amick, Robert Körner, and Stanley Jaki. Among people deceased in 1999, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 208Before him are Sulo Nurmela, Owen Hart, Celso Torrelio, Nahum Stelmach, Rick Danko, and Josef Zeman. After him are Mel Tormé, Arturo Fernández Meyzán, Annibale Frossi, Nathan Jacobson, Christopher Cockerell, and Necil Kazım Akses.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Humberto Fernández-Morán ranks 70 out of 155Before him are Andrés Narvarte (1781), Pastor Maldonado (1985), José Gregorio Monagas (1795), Henrique Capriles (1972), Eugenio Montejo (1938), and Juan Bautista Pérez (1869). After him are Edgar Sanabria (1911), Ignacio Andrade (1839), Julián Castro (1810), Édgar Ramírez (1977), Francisco Rodríguez (1945), and Pedro Gual Escandón (1783).

Among PHYSICISTS In Venezuela

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