PHYSICIST

Manfred von Ardenne

1907 - 1997

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Manfred baron von Ardenne (German pronunciation: [ˈmanfʁeːt fɔn aʁˈdɛn]; 20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher, autodidact in applied physics, and an inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his self-funded and private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik, where he developed and invented many techniques used in modern physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manfred von Ardenne has received more than 216,769 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Manfred von Ardenne is the 360th most popular physicist (down from 337th in 2019), the 1,748th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,711th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Manfred von Ardenne ranks 360 out of 851. Before him are Galileo Ferraris, Auguste Bravais, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, George Uhlenbeck, George Francis FitzGerald, and Walter H. Schottky. After him are Gaston Planté, Charles Fabry, Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Paul Drude.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Manfred von Ardenne ranks 95. Before him are Franz Jägerstätter, Pavel Sudoplatov, Maria Branyas, Sebastian Haffner, Jean Hyppolite, and Avraham Stern. After him are Momčilo Đujić, Ernesto Mascheroni, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Arseny Tarkovsky, Herbert Kappler, and Frithjof Schuon. Among people deceased in 1997, Manfred von Ardenne ranks 81. Before him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Alparslan Türkeş, Gunpei Yokoi, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Héctor Yazalde, and Teiichi Matsumaru. After him are Stig Anderson, Samuel Fuller, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Hastings Banda, François Furet, and Kunihiko Kodaira.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Manfred von Ardenne ranks 1,748 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Morgenstern (1871), Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893), Klaus Fischer (1949), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825), and Uziel Gal (1923). After him are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Gretl Braun (1915), and Marianne Brandt (1893).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Manfred von Ardenne ranks 53. Before him are Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), John B. Goodenough (1922), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), and Heinrich Geißler (1814). After him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), and Rudolf Peierls (1907).

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