MATHEMATICIAN

Marcel Grossmann

1878 - 1936

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Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a Swiss mathematician who was a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann came from an old Swiss family in Zürich. His father managed a textile factory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Grossmann has received more than 239,015 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Marcel Grossmann is the 173rd most popular mathematician (up from 193rd in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 128th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Marcel Grossmann ranks 173 out of 1,004. Before him are Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Camille Jordan, and Gösta Mittag-Leffler. After him are Jost Bürgi, Jean-Pierre Serre, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Édouard Lucas, Conon of Samos, and Ernst Zermelo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Marcel Grossmann ranks 27. Before him are Gemma Galgani, Louis Chevrolet, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Stepan Shaumian, Georg Kaiser, and George Whipple. After him are Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Arthur Scherbius, Yosano Akiko, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Eileen Gray, and Yakov Yurovsky. Among people deceased in 1936, Marcel Grossmann ranks 44. Before him are Nikolai Ostrovsky, Georgy Chicherin, Julius Schreck, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Heinrich Rickert, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are José Sanjurjo, Robert Michels, Wilhelm Gustloff, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Bertha Pappenheim, and Duan Qirui.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Marcel Grossmann ranks 117 out of 1,077. Before him are Ján Kollár (1793), Gyula Grosics (1926), György Cziffra (1921), Orestes (420), Bayan I (600), and Saint Emeric of Hungary (1000). After him are George I Rákóczi (1593), Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131), Judit Polgár (1976), Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872), Miklós Jancsó (1921), and Péter Medgyessy (1942).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Marcel Grossmann ranks 4. Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), and George Pólya (1887). After him are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), and Klára Dán von Neumann (1911).

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