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Marian Smoluchowski

1872 - 1917

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Marian Smoluchowski (Polish: [ˈmarjan smɔluˈxɔfski]; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of Brownian motion and stochastic processes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marian Smoluchowski has received more than 121,519 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Marian Smoluchowski is the 462nd most popular physicist (down from 434th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Austria (down from 537th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 462 out of 717. Before him are Stefan Hell, Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, Yuri Orlov, and Max Abraham. After him are Joseph Larmor, John Henry Schwarz, Robert Brout, John Canton, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Katharine Burr Blodgett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 80. Before him are Max Beerbohm, Adolf Schmal, Carlo Sforza, Camille Guérin, Déodat de Séverac, and Robert Maillart. After him are Reginald Doherty, Miguel Cabanellas, Franz John, Edith Wilson, Bak Jungyang, and Dionysios Kasdaglis. Among people deceased in 1917, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 65. Before him are Enric Prat de la Riba, Teresa Carreño, Émile Boirac, George Dewey, Léon Flameng, and Titu Maiorescu. After him are Judith Gautier, Ber Borochov, Federico Zandomeneghi, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, Frances Xavier Cabrini, and Petter Adolf Karsten.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 584 out of 1,237. Before him are Georg Rafael Donner (1693), Emma Eckstein (1865), Albert Apponyi (1846), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), and Konstantin Jireček (1854). After him are Franz König (1905), Richard Kohn (1888), Paula von Preradović (1887), Rudolf Vytlačil (1912), Erich Probst (1927), and Clemens von Pirquet (1874).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 13. Before him are Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), Walter Kohn (1923), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Marietta Blau (1894), and Anton Zeilinger (1945). After him are Heinz von Foerster (1911), Berta Karlik (1904), Julius Wess (1934), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), Peter Zoller (1952), and Walter Munk (1917).

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