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Otto Robert Frisch

1904 - 1979

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Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Robert Frisch has received more than 298,827 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Otto Robert Frisch is the 257th most popular physicist (up from 278th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 295th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 257 out of 851. Before him are Claude-Louis Navier, Brian Josephson, Charles Wheatstone, Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, and David Brewster. After him are Rainer Weiss, Syukuro Manabe, Max Delbrück, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, and John Cockcroft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 45. Before him are Lucile Randon, Willem de Kooning, Odilo Globočnik, Joseph Campbell, Nikolai Ostrovsky, and Clifford D. Simak. After him are Héctor Castro, Karl Rahner, Nikolai Kuznetsov, John Gielgud, Gerhard Herzberg, and George Balanchine. Among people deceased in 1979, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 33. Before him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Agostinho Neto, Reinhard Gehlen, Wilhelm Bittrich, Rachele Mussolini, and Mary Pickford. After him are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ernst Chain, Peggy Guggenheim, Dhyan Chand, Giulio Natta, and Edvard Kardelj.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 233 out of 1,424. Before him are Miep Gies (1909), Bruno Kreisky (1911), Otto Bauer (1881), Oskar Potiorek (1853), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), and Gustav Wagner (1911). After him are Josef von Sternberg (1894), Peter L. Berger (1929), Paul Lazarsfeld (1901), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656), Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711), and Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (1418).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 8. Before him are Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Lise Meitner (1878), Christian Doppler (1803), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Victor Francis Hess (1883), and Anton Zeilinger (1945). After him are Victor Weisskopf (1908), Walter Kohn (1923), Fritjof Capra (1939), Marietta Blau (1894), Berta Karlik (1904), and Marian Smoluchowski (1872).

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