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Léon Rosenfeld

1904 - 1974

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Léon Rosenfeld (French: [ʁɔzɛnfɛld]; 14 August 1904 in Charleroi – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and a communist activist. Rosenfeld was born into a secular Jewish family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Rosenfeld has received more than 52,257 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Léon Rosenfeld is the 789th most popular physicist (down from 724th in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 697th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Léon Rosenfeld ranks 789 out of 851. Before him are Samuel King Allison, Daniel Kleppner, John Pendry, Robert L. Forward, Ayşe Erzan, and Werner Israel. After him are Emil Wolf, Cumrun Vafa, Yash Pal, Egon Orowan, Sarah Frances Whiting, and Abhay Ashtekar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Léon Rosenfeld ranks 337. Before him are Alice White, José Ruiz, Alfred Bohrmann, August Heim, J. H. C. Whitehead, and Hendrik Timmer. After him are Raphael Tracey, Marian Nixon, Frank Amyot, Silvio Pietroboni, Keith Holyoake, and George Formby. Among people deceased in 1974, Léon Rosenfeld ranks 247. Before him are Roger Staub, Giovanni D'Anzi, Jacob Bronowski, Ralph Bishop, Mary Forbes, and Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar. After him are Edna Best, Harry Carney, Patricia Collinge, Robert Ellis, Ken Myers, and Tina Brooks.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Léon Rosenfeld ranks 829 out of 1,190. Before him are Joseph Vissers (1928), Charles Hamilton Smith (1776), Leandro Trossard (1994), Abdelhamid Abaaoud (1987), Gerard Plessers (1959), and Patrick Vervoort (1965). After him are Etienne De Wilde (1958), Remco Evenepoel (2000), Gaston Salmon (1878), Roger Laurent (1913), Axelle Red (1968), and Adnan Januzaj (1995).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Léon Rosenfeld ranks 6. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894), François Englert (1932), Joseph Plateau (1801), Théophile de Donder (1872), and Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763). After him are Conny Aerts (1966).

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