PHYSICIST

Johanna Budwig

1908 - 2003

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Johanna Budwig (1908 – 2003) was a German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and writer. Budwig was a pharmacist and held doctorate degrees in physics and chemistry. Based on her research on fatty acids she developed a lacto-vegetarian diet that she believed was useful in the treatment of cancer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johanna Budwig has received more than 317,774 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johanna Budwig is the 422nd most popular physicist (down from 375th in 2019), the 2,398th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,052nd in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Johanna Budwig ranks 422 out of 851Before her are Evelyn Fox Keller, Yulii Khariton, Arpad Elo, Leonard Susskind, Jacob Bekenstein, and Louis Paul Cailletet. After her are Federico Faggin, Saul Perlmutter, Ludvig Lorenz, Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, and Robert J. Van de Graaff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Johanna Budwig ranks 120Before her are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Alejandro Scopelli, Yevgeny Vuchetich, Christa Schroeder, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, and Fritz Witt. After her are Janina Lewandowska, Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Aden Adde, Françoise Dolto, Albert Scherrer, and Carlos Peucelle. Among people deceased in 2003, Johanna Budwig ranks 96Before her are Kalpana Chawla, Prince Carl Bernadotte, Gertrude Ederle, Maurice Pialat, Massimo Girotti, and John Ritter. After her are Robert Brown, William Steig, Jacques Deray, Marie Trintignant, Anita Mui, and Martha Scott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johanna Budwig ranks 2,398 out of 7,253Before her are Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Peter Schöffer (1420), Horst Eckel (1932), Hans Litten (1903), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), and Helmut Lachenmann (1935). After her are William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343), Julius Plücker (1801), Arp Schnitger (1648), Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (1802), Lothar Collatz (1910), and Hans Albers (1891).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Johanna Budwig ranks 61Before her are Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), and Walther Gerlach (1889). After her are Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walther Meissner (1882), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Erich Hückel (1896), and Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796).