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Peter Grünberg

1939 - 2018

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Peter Andreas Grünberg (German: [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 204,347 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Peter Grünberg is the 137th most popular physicist (up from 153rd in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 65th 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 137 out of 851. Before him are Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, Felix Bloch, Walther Bothe, Hideki Yukawa, and William Henry Bragg. After him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Rudolf Mössbauer, George Paget Thomson, Donald A. Glaser, Auguste Piccard, and Kip Thorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Grünberg ranks 22. Before him are Romano Prodi, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Karel Gott, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph Lauren. After him are George Lazenby, Sonny Chiba, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Jackie Stewart, Michèle Mercier, and Richard Kiel. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Grünberg ranks 20. Before him are John McCain, Philip Roth, Stephen Hillenburg, France Gall, Paul Bocuse, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After him are Hubert de Givenchy, Billy Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Burt Reynolds, Riccardo Giacconi, and Lys Assia.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Peter Grünberg ranks 57 out of 1,200. Before him are Adalbert of Prague (955), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Karel Gott (1939), Emil Hácha (1872), Milena Jesenská (1896), and Bohumil Hrabal (1914). After him are Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Karl Renner (1870), George of Poděbrady (1420), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Franz Werfel (1890), and Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Czechia

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).

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