PHYSICIST

Paul Scherrer

1890 - 1969

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Paul Hermann Scherrer (3 February 1890 – 25 September 1969) was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Scherrer has received more than 117,686 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Scherrer is the 679th most popular physicist (down from 607th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 431st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Scherrer ranks 679 out of 851. Before him are Yoshiaki Arata, Frederick Seitz, John Hopkinson, Max Tegmark, Ursula Franklin, and Edith Clarke. After him are John Polkinghorne, Jan Burgers, Thibault Damour, Isaak Kikoin, Robert R. Wilson, and John Iliopoulos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Paul Scherrer ranks 192. Before him are Robert Lindsay, Hans Gál, Åge Lundström, Herbert Marshall, Robert Armstrong, and Luís de Freitas Branco. After him are Rainer von Fieandt, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Mortimer Wheeler, Stanley Holloway, Edgar Kennedy, and Verna Felton. Among people deceased in 1969, Paul Scherrer ranks 180. Before him are Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Saverio Ragno, Julius Katchen, Hagigat Rzayeva, Stijn Streuvels, and Jim Bellamy. After him are Josef Hassmann, Oswald Holmberg, Julius Saaristo, Giuseppe Viani, Tom Naudé, and Moisés Solana.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Scherrer ranks 531 out of 1,015. Before him are Rudolf Gnägi (1917), Béatrix Beck (1914), Pipilotti Rist (1962), Jacques Chessex (1934), Bibi Torriani (1911), and Kubilay Türkyilmaz (1967). After him are Urs Widmer (1938), Adolf Muschg (1934), Denise Biellmann (1962), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), Heinz Schneiter (1935), and Mario Frick (1974).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Paul Scherrer ranks 14. Before him are Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Alfred Kleiner (1849), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724). After him are Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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