CHEMIST

Peter Armbruster

1931 - 2024

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Peter Armbruster (25 July 1931 – 26 June 2024) was a German physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with co-discovering elements 107 (bohrium), 108 (hassium), 109 (meitnerium), 110 (darmstadtium), 111 (roentgenium), and 112 (copernicium) with research partner Gottfried Münzenberg. Armbruster studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Munich, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 under Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Technical University of Munich. His major research fields were fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Centre of Jülich (1965 to 1970). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Armbruster has received more than 34,452 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Armbruster is the 530th most popular chemist (down from 480th in 2019), the 5,099th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,201st in 2019) and the 103rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Armbruster ranks 530 out of 602. Before her are Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Eugen Baumann, Robin Hill, Hans von Pechmann, Leslie Orgel, and Sabir Yunusov. After her are Neil Bartlett, Robert Jarvik, John Mayow, Wallace Smith Broecker, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, and Aleksandr Arbuzov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Peter Armbruster ranks 470. Before her are Índio, Galina Shamrai, Thorvald Strömberg, Carlos Graça, Sergio Obeso Rivera, and Igor Maslennikov. After her are Giuliana Minuzzo, Heinz Fütterer, Karl-Friedrich Haas, Wallace Smith Broecker, Ferry Graf, and Gustav-Adolf Schur. Among people deceased in 2024, Peter Armbruster ranks 354. Before her are Shyam Benegal, Martin Mull, Alan Rees, Pascal Lainé, Robert H. Dennard, and S. M. Krishna. After her are Richard Lewis, Francisco Rodríguez, John Prescott, Frank Auerbach, Guram Kostava, and Anita Bryant.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Armbruster ranks 5,099 out of 7,253. Before her are Gustav von Seyffertitz (1862), Tim Wiese (1981), Peter Wohlleben (1964), Otto Bütschli (1848), Peter Altmaier (1958), and Heiner Lauterbach (1953). After her are Ilona Gusenbauer (1947), Franz Pfnür (1908), Leni Junker (1905), Matthias Herget (1955), Lutz Eigendorf (1956), and H. A. Rey (1898).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Peter Armbruster ranks 103. Before her are Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835), Eugen Baumann (1846), and Hans von Pechmann (1850). After her are Carl Jacob Löwig (1803), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Jürgen Hennig (1951), Max Bodenstein (1871), and Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748).

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