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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. He introduced Jordan algebras in an effort to formalize quantum field theory; the algebras have since found numerous applications within mathematics.Jordan joined the Nazi Party in 1933, but did not follow the Deutsche Physik movement, which at the time rejected quantum physics developed by Albert Einstein and other Jewish physicists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pascual Jordan has received more than 308,902 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Pascual Jordan is the 329th most popular physicist (down from 319th in 2019), the 1,630th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,525th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pascual Jordan ranks 329 out of 717Before him are Yakov Zeldovich, James Jeans, Frank Wilczek, Bruno Pontecorvo, Gaston Planté, and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier. After him are August Kundt, Félix Savart, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Leopold Infeld, Vladimir Shukhov, and George Francis FitzGerald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Pascual Jordan ranks 69Before him are Demchugdongrub, Wilhelm Stuckart, Ryuzo Shimizu, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Eugen Jochum, and Sylvanus Olympio. After him are Marcel Aymé, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Nathan Milstein, William Walton, Markian Popov, and Jan Tschichold. Among people deceased in 1980, Pascual Jordan ranks 72Before him are Yigal Allon, Tex Avery, Kazimierz Kuratowski, John Mauchly, Tôn Đức Thắng, and Hugh Griffith. After him are Ida Kamińska, Ernst Busch, Friedrich Hossbach, Toyen, Masayoshi Ōhira, and Olga Chekhova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Pascual Jordan ranks 1,630 out of 6,142Before him are Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914), Uli Stielike (1954), Arnold Janssen (1837), Saint Afra (300), Anton von Werner (1843), and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815). After him are Hugo Riemann (1849), Otto Dietrich (1897), Gustav Landauer (1870), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Eduard Mörike (1804), and William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Pascual Jordan ranks 47Before him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), Friedrich Hund (1896), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), and Christoph Scheiner (1575). After him are August Kundt (1839), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Heinrich Geißler (1814), and Paul Drude (1863).