PHYSICIST

Leopold Infeld

1898 - 1968

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Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Infeld has received more than 96,920 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Leopold Infeld is the 347th most popular physicist (down from 333rd in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from Poland (down from 334th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 58.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Leopold Infeld has had the most page views in the with 11,922 views, followed by Polish (10,243), and Chinese (2,538). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (73.33%), Catalan (70.04%), and Slovak (46.33%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leopold Infeld ranks 347 out of 851. Before him are Shuji Nakamura, Hans Kramers, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Jean-Charles de Borda, Franz Ernst Neumann, and Walter A. Shewhart. After him are William Sturgeon, Marguerite Perey, Moritz von Jacobi, Stephen Hales, Yakov Zeldovich, and Heinrich Geißler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Leopold Infeld ranks 70. Before him are Arletty, Gulzarilal Nanda, Viktor Pavičić, Kurt Tank, Julius Schaub, and Ernő Gerő. After him are Marie-Pierre Kœnig, August Hirt, Matvei Zakharov, Jean Borotra, István Dobi, and Salvatore Ferragamo. Among people deceased in 1968, Leopold Infeld ranks 46. Before him are Josef Harpe, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Georgios Papandreou, Tsuguharu Foujita, Fritz Bauer, and Husband E. Kimmel. After him are Giovannino Guareschi, John Heartfield, Fedor Tokarev, Jean Hyppolite, István Dobi, and Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leopold Infeld ranks 338 out of 1,694. Before him are Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Tommy Wiseau (1955), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Barbara Brylska (1941), Casimir Pulaski (1745), and Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785). After him are Roman Dmowski (1864), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Leopold Infeld ranks 10. Before him are Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Joseph Rotblat (1908), and Klaus von Klitzing (1943). After him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Max Abraham (1875).

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