CHEMIST

Jan Czochralski

1885 - 1953

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Jan Czochralski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan t͡ʂɔˈxralskʲi]; 23 October 1885 – 22 April 1953) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski method, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers. It is still used in over 90 percent of all electronics in the world that use semiconductors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Czochralski has received more than 123,236 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jan Czochralski is the 384th most popular chemist (down from 382nd in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Poland (up from 643rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jan Czochralski ranks 384 out of 602. Before him are Ernst Otto Beckmann, Louis Le Chatelier, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Jacques Bergier, Friedrich Stromeyer, and Tim Hunt. After him are Thomas Andrews, Allen J. Bard, Asima Chatterjee, Hugo Schiff, Mathieu Orfila, and Albert Ghiorso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Jan Czochralski ranks 111. Before him are Francisco Bru, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Sophie, Princess of Albania, Anton Flettner, Dezső Kosztolányi, and Karl Genzken. After him are Aleksandras Stulginskis, Jerome Kern, Henri Laurens, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, François de La Rocque, and Rolf Carls. Among people deceased in 1953, Jan Czochralski ranks 83. Before him are Holger Pedersen, Joseph Jongen, Alexander Vasiliev, Lev Mekhlis, Ernst Reuter, and Xu Beihong. After him are Titta Ruffo, Nicolae Rădescu, Vsevolod Merkulov, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Arnold Bax, and Herman J. Mankiewicz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Czochralski ranks 626 out of 1,694. Before him are Zeev Sternhell (1935), Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Max Abraham (1875), Michał Rola-Żymierski (1890), and Ewa Kłobukowska (1946). After him are Heinrich Graetz (1817), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Peter Berling (1934), Julius von Sachs (1832), Adam Michnik (1946), and Stanisław Szukalski (1893).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Jan Czochralski ranks 18. Before him are Antoni Grabowski (1857), Richard Abegg (1869), Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), Hugo Erdmann (1862), and Kazimierz Fajans (1887). After him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Alfred Stock (1876), Heinrich Caro (1834), Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), and Sergey Lebedev (1874).

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