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PHYSICIST

Jürgen Ehlers

1929 - 2008

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Jürgen Ehlers (German: [ˈjʏʁɡŋ̩ ˈeːlɐs]; 29 December 1929 – 20 May 2008) was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity research group at Hamburg University, he held various posts as a lecturer and, later, as a professor before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jürgen Ehlers has received more than 146,444 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jürgen Ehlers is the 543rd most popular physicist (up from 549th in 2019), the 3,594th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,366th in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 543 out of 717. Before him are Alfred Kleiner, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Wallace Clement Sabine, William Edward Ayrton, and Albert Betz. After him are Dirk Coster, Gustave Trouvé, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Giuseppe Occhialini, William D. Coolidge, and Charles Kittel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 274. Before him are Vija Artmane, Karin Lindberg, Harry Frankfurt, Jimmy Cobb, Henri Pousseur, and Francesco Alberoni. After him are Michael Harner, Prahlad Jani, Dominique Fernandez, Moses Gunn, Burhan Sargun, and Maarten Schmidt. Among people deceased in 2008, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 178. Before him are Antonio Innocenti, Raúl Reyes, Ken Naganuma, Vija Artmane, Ken Ogata, and Evelyn Keyes. After him are Anne-Cath. Vestly, Géza Kalocsay, Alfred Pfaff, Galyani Vadhana, Claude Abbes, and Nikola Kljusev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 3,594 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685), Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), Fritz Buchloh (1909), Kurt Aland (1915), and Albert Betz (1885). After him are Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Erich Ollenhauer (1901), Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712), Adam Lonicer (1528), Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer (1900), and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 75. Before him are Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Otto Lehmann (1855), August Beer (1825), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Woldemar Voigt (1850), and Albert Betz (1885). After him are Georg Adolf Erman (1806), Gustav Mie (1868), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), Burkhard Heim (1925), and Heinrich Kayser (1853).

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