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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, a system of physical exercise that aims to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moshé Feldenkrais has received more than 287,084 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Moshé Feldenkrais is the 260th most popular physicist (up from 282nd in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 150th 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 260 out of 717. Before him are Gérard Mourou, Klaus Fuchs, Daniel Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, and John Cockcroft. After him are Rainer Weiss, Abdul Qadeer Khan, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Philip Warren Anderson, Hugh David Politzer, and Jack Steinberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 50. Before him are George Balanchine, Lucile Randon, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Karl Rahner, John Gielgud, and Héctor Castro. After him are Gerhard Herzberg, Donald O. Hebb, Serge Lifar, Otto Robert Frisch, Peter Lorre, and Ernst-Günther Schenck. Among people deceased in 1984, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 36. Before him are Ahmed Sékou Touré, Vicente Aleixandre, Stanislaw Ulam, Karl Rahner, Jackie Coogan, and Irwin Shaw. After him are Henri Michaux, Oskar Werner, Joseph Losey, Tito Gobbi, Brassaï, and Janet Gaynor.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Moshé Feldenkrais ranks 131 out of 1,083. Before him are Mikhail Kirponos (1892), Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Ephraim Katzir (1916), and Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900). After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), Erwin Chargaff (1905), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Isaac Stern (1920), and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895).

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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), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), and Gregory Breit (1899).

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