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Paul Peter Ewald

1888 - 1985

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Paul Peter Ewald, FRS (January 23, 1888 – August 22, 1985) was a German crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Peter Ewald has received more than 76,254 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Peter Ewald is the 639th most popular physicist (down from 597th in 2019), the 4,232nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,694th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 639 out of 717Before him are Alfred Ewing, Frank Oppenheimer, Leo Kadanoff, Ursula Franklin, Barys Kit, and Lee Smolin. After him are Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Edward Condon, Leonid Sedov, Mark Oliphant, Zoltán Lajos Bay, and César Lattes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 188Before him are Hans von Rosen, José Eustasio Rivera, Kaarlo Koskelo, Robert Moses, Henri Bosco, and Carlo Oriani. After him are Donduk Kuular, Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Sven Landberg, František Langer, Anders Haugen, and Boris Verlinsky. Among people deceased in 1985, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 185Before him are Sam Spiegel, Carlos Mota Pinto, Božo Broketa, William Stevenson, Harald Cramér, and John Holt. After him are Miguel Otero Silva, Maya Kristalinskaya, Josef Smistik, Renato Olmi, Inger Hagerup, and Emerson Spencer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 4,232 out of 6,142Before him are Tré Cool (1972), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), Peter Frenkel (1939), Rainer Woelki (1956), Alfred Bohrmann (1904), and Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1815). After him are Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Björn Engholm (1939), Jupp Kapellmann (1949), Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Emmanuel Scheffer (1924), and Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 86Before him are Burkhard Heim (1925), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Walther Müller (1905), Ralph Kronig (1904), Alfred Landé (1888), and Ursula Franklin (1921). After him are Hedwig Kohn (1887), Arthur Schuster (1851), Pief Panofsky (1919), Ernst Ising (1900), Gregor Wentzel (1898), and Jürgen Kurths (1953).