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Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1939 - 2018

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His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Grünberg is the 116th most popular physicist (up from 137th in 2024), the 40th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 57th 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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Peter Grünberg is the most memorable of the 37 notable people born in Plzeň, Czechia, ahead of Karel Gott, Emil Škoda, and Petr Čech.

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Peter Grünberg climbed 1,682 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #5,355 to #3,673.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Peter Grünberg ranks 116 out of 863. Before him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, Ernest Lawrence, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Heinrich Rohrer, and Walther Bothe. After him are Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, Albert Fert, and Owen Chamberlain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Grünberg ranks 10. Before him are Tina Turner, Francis Ford Coppola, Ian McKellen, Lee Harvey Oswald, Stanislav Petrov, and Gro Harlem Brundtland. After him are Giovanni Trapattoni, Amos Oz, Amanda Lear, Harvey Keitel, Giovanni Falcone, and Ada Yonath. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Grünberg ranks 17. Before him are Bernardo Bertolucci, Stan Lee, Miloš Forman, Joe Jackson, John Young, and John Sulston. After him are Amos Oz, Isao Takahata, Riccardo Giacconi, John McCain, Stephen Hillenburg, and Jean-Louis Tauran.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Peter Grünberg ranks 40 out of 1,455. Before him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Emil Zátopek (1922), Hans Kelsen (1881), Max Brod (1884), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), and Gerty Cori (1896). After him are Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Klement Gottwald (1896), Karl Kautsky (1854), and Adolf Loos (1870).

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Among Physicists In Czechia

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

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