PHYSICIST

Moshé Feldenkrais

1904 - 1984

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Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais (Hebrew: משה פנחס פלדנקרייז, May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984) was a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moshé Feldenkrais has received more than 302,634 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Moshé Feldenkrais is the 310th most popular physicist (down from 260th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 130th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

Moshé Feldenkrais was a pioneer in the field of human movement. He was most famous for his work in the field of somatic education, which is the idea that the body is an instrument of learning.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 310 out of 851. Before him are Jack Steinberger, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, David Gross, Ratko Janev, and Paul-Jacques Curie. After him are James Jeans, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John Robert Schrieffer, Jan Ingenhousz, Ludwig Prandtl, and Fritjof Capra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 57. Before him are George Balanchine, František Plánička, Charles J. Pedersen, Serge Lifar, Donald O. Hebb, and Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta. After him are Josef Bühler, Peter Lorre, Henri Cartan, Rudolf Arnheim, Leopold Trepper, and Elyesa Bazna. Among people deceased in 1984, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 42. Before him are Tito Gobbi, Kim Il, Henri Michaux, Oskar Werner, Yigael Yadin, and Enrico Berlinguer. After him are Walter Rauff, Pavel Batitsky, James Mason, Yılmaz Güney, Brassaï, and Jackie Coogan.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 174 out of 1,365. Before him are Sigismund Korybut (1395), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Marina Mniszech (1588), Alexander Pechersky (1909), Robert Maxwell (1923), and Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937). After him are Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Pavel Popovich (1930), Pavel Batitsky (1910), Leo Kanner (1894), Eupraxia of Kiev (1071), and Valeriy Borzov (1949).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 3. Before him are George Gamow (1904), and Georges Charpak (1924). After him are Abram Ioffe (1880), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Ivan Puluj (1845), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), and Isaak Khalatnikov (1919).

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