1939 - 2018
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, Peter Grünberg ranks 153 out of 717. Before 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.
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 147
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 148
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 149
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 150
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 151
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 152
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 153
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 154
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 155
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 156
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 157
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 158
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 159
Among people born in 1939, Peter Grünberg ranks 28. Before 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 21. Before 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.
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 22
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 23
1939 - 2001
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 24
1939 - 2021
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 25
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 26
1939 - 2002
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 27
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 28
1939 - Present
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 29
1939 - 2017
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 30
1939 - Present
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 31
1939 - 2022
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 32
1939 - 2015
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 33
1939 - 2021
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 34
1936 - 2018
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 15
1926 - 2018
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 16
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 17
1961 - 2018
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 18
1947 - 2018
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 19
1936 - 2018
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 20
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 21
1927 - 2018
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 22
1918 - 2018
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 23
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 24
1942 - 2018
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 25
1923 - 2018
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 26
1924 - 2018
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 27
Among people born in Czechia, Peter Grünberg ranks 65 out of 973. Before 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).
1895 - 1979
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 59
1728 - 1779
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 60
1890 - 1947
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 61
1890 - 1945
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 62
1644 - 1704
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 63
1420 - 1471
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 64
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 65
1874 - 1936
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 66
1880 - 1943
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 67
1315 - 1349
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 68
1871 - 1957
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 69
1942 - 2016
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 70
1903 - 1939
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 71
Among physicists born in Czechia, Peter Grünberg ranks 2. Before him are Ernst Mach (1838). After him are Christian Mayer (1719), Franz Josef Gerstner (1756), and Emil Wolf (1922).
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 1
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 2
1719 - 1783
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 3
1756 - 1832
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 4
1922 - 2018
HPI: 39.86
Rank: 5