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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. Smoluchowski graduated in physics from the University of Vienna in 1895 before becoming a privatdozent at the University of Lemberg three years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marian Smoluchowski has received more than 131,715 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Marian Smoluchowski is the 483rd most popular physicist (down from 462nd in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 582nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 483 out of 851. Before him are Ole Worm, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Emil Wiechert, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Yuri Orlov, and Carlo Rovelli. After him are Vilhelm Bjerknes, G. M. B. Dobson, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, John Leslie, Martin Knudsen, and Ivan Puluj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 78. Before him are Momčilo Tapavica, Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Hàm Nghi, Miguel Cabanellas, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, and Heinrich Vogeler. After him are Edith Wilson, Armen Garo, Robert Maillart, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Juho Vennola, and Dionysios Kasdaglis. Among people deceased in 1917, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 62. Before him are Boris Stürmer, Léon Flameng, Anton Haus, Teresa Carreño, Enric Prat de la Riba, and Andrew Taylor Still. After him are Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Ber Borochov, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Otto Finsch, Titu Maiorescu, and Werner Voss.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 602 out of 1,424. Before him are István Friedrich (1883), Otto Ender (1875), Valentin Inzko (1949), Victor Capesius (1907), David Alaba (1992), and Jan-Carl Raspe (1944). After him are Franz Schalk (1863), Carl Moll (1861), Erich Fried (1921), Rudolf Vytlačil (1912), Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567), and Inge Morath (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 14. Before him are Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Walter Kohn (1923), Fritjof Capra (1939), Marietta Blau (1894), and Berta Karlik (1904). After him are Heinz von Foerster (1911), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Julius Wess (1934), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), and Peter Zoller (1952).

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