PHYSICIST

Jürgen Ehlers

1929 - 2008

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Jürgen Ehlers (German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈʔeːlɐs]; 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 162,302 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jürgen Ehlers is the 529th most popular physicist (up from 543rd in 2019), the 3,576th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,585th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 529 out of 851. Before him are Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Ernest Marsden, Edoardo Amaldi, Jayant Narlikar, Ralph H. Fowler, and Nicola Cabibbo. After him are Boris Rosing, Samuel T. Cohen, Edward Condon, Bryce DeWitt, Eric Allin Cornell, and Vladimir Steklov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 250. Before him are Franca Rame, Gérard de Villiers, John Osborne, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Yuri Artsutanov, and June Squibb. After him are Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, István Kertész, Adrienne Rich, Link Wray, Rutka Laskier, and Slavko Avsenik. Among people deceased in 2008, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 166. Before him are Robert Jonquet, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Galyani Vadhana, Lydia Shum, Grigory Romanov, and Simon Hantaï. After him are John Phillip Law, Cornell Capa, René Harris, Germaine Tillion, Paavo Haavikko, and Levy Mwanawasa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 3,576 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661), Max Lorenz (1901), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863), Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901), and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1674). After him are Jurij Brězan (1916), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1704), Wilfried Dietrich (1933), Kurt Aland (1915), and Justus Jonas (1493).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 73. Before him are Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), and Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796). After him are Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Albert Betz (1885), Emil Warburg (1846), Woldemar Voigt (1850), August Beer (1825), and Otto Lehmann (1855).

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