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Julius Wess

1934 - 2007

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Julius Erich Wess (5 December 1934 – 8 August 2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry and conformal field theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Wess has received more than 37,152 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Wess is the 649th most popular physicist (down from 619th in 2019), the 859th most popular biography from Austria (down from 779th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julius Wess ranks 649 out of 851. Before her are Ferdinand Monoyer, Frederick Guthrie, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Ali Javan, William Higinbotham, and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn. After her are Hertha Sponer, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, César Lattes, Michael Berry, Lee Smolin, and Franz Josef Gerstner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Julius Wess ranks 347. Before her are Aurelio Milani, Peter Maxwell Davies, Zlatko Papec, Mario Segale, Alketas Panagoulias, and Lucien Clergue. After her are C. N. R. Rao, Takayuki Kubota, Bobby Unser, Humberto Tozzi, Pierre Darmon, and Henry Cooper. Among people deceased in 2007, Julius Wess ranks 270. Before her are Zahrad, Blaga Aleksova, Chrisye, John P. Ryan, Ellen Preis, and Kei Kumai. After her are Anatol Rapoport, Qurratulain Hyder, Tony Scott, Henry L. Giclas, Angelo Conterno, and Gisela Uhlen.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Julius Wess ranks 859 out of 1,424. Before her are Sybil Danning (1952), Ruth Maier (1920), Erich Eliskases (1913), Ernest Gold (1921), Erwin Wurm (1954), and Walter Nausch (1907). After her are Walter Zeman (1927), Leonie Rysanek (1926), Karl Stotz (1927), Alfred Teinitzer (1929), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), and Johann Urbanek (1910).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Julius Wess ranks 17. Before her are Fritjof Capra (1939), Marietta Blau (1894), Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), and Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874). After her are Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), Peter Zoller (1952), and Walter Munk (1917).

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