PHYSICIST

Pascual Jordan

1902 - 1980

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Ernst Pascual Jordan (German: [ˈɛʁnst pasˈku̯al ˈjɔʁdaːn]; 18 October 1902 – 31 July 1980) was a German theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pascual Jordan has received more than 337,915 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Pascual Jordan is the 294th most popular physicist (up from 329th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,630th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pascual Jordan ranks 294 out of 851. Before him are Ettore Majorana, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, Anne L'Huillier, and Nevill Francis Mott. After him are Qian Xuesen, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Armen Sarkissian, John Tyndall, George Smoot, and William Daniel Phillips.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Pascual Jordan ranks 50. Before him are Max Ophüls, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Antonia Brico, Luis Barragán, Lúcio Costa, and George Ostrogorsky. After him are Oskar Morgenstern, Wilhelm Stuckart, Mohammad Hatta, Carlo Gambino, Mitsuo Fuchida, and Josep Samitier. Among people deceased in 1980, Pascual Jordan ranks 50. Before him are Mae West, Vinicius de Moraes, Gustav Wagner, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Kim Jae-gyu, and Raoul Walsh. After him are V. V. Giri, Robert Whittaker, Mohammad Hatta, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Patrick Depailler, and Walter Dornberger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Pascual Jordan ranks 1,163 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Clauberg (1898), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann van Beethoven (1740), Sigmund Jähn (1937), and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792). After him are Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), and Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Pascual Jordan ranks 45. Before him are Max Delbrück (1906), August Kundt (1839), Carl von Linde (1842), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Christoph Scheiner (1575), and Friedrich Hund (1896). After him are Jack Steinberger (1921), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), John B. Goodenough (1922), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), and Moritz von Jacobi (1801).

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