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Peter Grünberg

1939 - 2018

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Peter Andreas Grünberg (German pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈɡʁyːnbɛʁk] ; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Grünberg has received more than 192,166 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Peter Grünberg is the 153rd most popular physicist (down from 131st in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 54th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Physicist.

Peter Grünberg is a German physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of spintronics. He is a professor at the University of Mainz and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Grünberg ranks 153 out of 717Before him are William Shockley, Johann Jakob Balmer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Martin Lewis Perl, Rudolf Mössbauer, and Hans Geiger. After him are Val Logsdon Fitch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Hugh Everett III, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, and Willard Boyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Grünberg ranks 28Before him are Ralph Lauren, F. Murray Abraham, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Sonny Chiba, Clay Regazzoni, and Valeriy Lobanovskyi. After him are John Cleese, Tzvetan Todorov, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Ricardo Bofill, Wes Craven, and Jorge Sampaio. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Grünberg ranks 21Before him are John McCain, Paul Bocuse, Isao Takahata, Stephen Hillenburg, France Gall, and Burt Reynolds. After him are Hubert de Givenchy, Billy Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Arto Paasilinna, Arvid Carlsson, and Jin Yong.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Peter Grünberg ranks 65 out of 973Before him are Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Victor Lustig (1890), Franz Werfel (1890), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644), and George of Poděbrady (1420). After him are Karl Kraus (1874), Max Wertheimer (1880), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), František Kupka (1871), Věra Čáslavská (1942), and Matthias Sindelar (1903).

Among PHYSICISTS In Czechia

Among physicists born in Czechia, Peter Grünberg ranks 2Before him are Ernst Mach (1838). After him are Christian Mayer (1719), Franz Josef Gerstner (1756), and Emil Wolf (1922).