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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 83,301 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Peter Ewald is the 661st most popular physicist (down from 639th in 2019), the 4,649th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,218th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 661 out of 851. Before him are Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, Orest Khvolson, Adriaan Fokker, Hans Reissner, and Mordehai Milgrom. After him are Christian Møller, Charles H. Bennett, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Shoichi Sakata, Ted Fujita, and William Astbury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 201. Before him are Vasyl Barvinsky, Kārlis Zāle, Hans von Rosen, Eduardo Santos, Dora Gabe, and Beulah Louise Henry. After him are Alfred Asikainen, Martin Benka, José Eustasio Rivera, Rexhep Mitrovica, Florence La Badie, and Sándor Pósta. Among people deceased in 1985, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 187. Before him are Sam Spiegel, Rudolf Burkert, Jo Jones, Ina Claire, Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, and Carmen Barth. After him are William Stevenson, Roger Maris, Hilding Rosenberg, Rudolf Gnägi, Ilka Gedő, and Uku Masing.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 4,649 out of 7,253. Before him are Frank Beyer (1932), Mario Basler (1968), Mira Lobe (1913), Mato Kósyk (1853), Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg (1839), and Alice Salomon (1872). After him are Hans Schwartz (1913), Carsten Wolf (1964), Wolfram Löwe (1945), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Kevin Trapp (1990), and Bärbel Wöckel (1955).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 90. Before him are Gustav Mie (1868), Walther Müller (1905), Walter Kaufmann (1871), Alfred Landé (1888), Ralph Kronig (1904), and Hans Reissner (1874). After him are Ursula Franklin (1921), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Gregor Wentzel (1898), Pief Panofsky (1919), Rudolf Haag (1922), and Walter Gordon (1893).

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