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Pierre Victor Auger

1899 - 1993

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Pierre Victor Auger (French pronunciation: [oʒe]; 14 May 1899 – 24 December 1993) was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Victor Auger has received more than 77,332 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pierre Victor Auger is the 464th most popular physicist (up from 481st in 2019), the 2,873rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,145th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 464 out of 851. Before him are Jules Jamin, Rashid Sunyaev, Giovanni Aldini, Christian Mayer, Eugen Goldstein, and Vikram Sarabhai. After him are Gaspard de Prony, Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, Marie Alfred Cornu, Dennis W. Sciama, and John Kerr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 122. Before him are Lovro von Matačić, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Sherm Clark, Noël Coward, and Alexander Tcherepnin. After him are Justas Paleckis, Leo Borchard, Semyon Krivoshein, Francis Ponge, Georg Leibbrandt, and Zhang Daqian. Among people deceased in 1993, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 102. Before him are Leo Löwenthal, Ugo Locatelli, Mario Evaristo, Anna Sten, Richard Jordan, and Józef Czapski. After him are Guido Masetti, Chishū Ryū, John Tuzo Wilson, Henry Hazlitt, Clarence Zener, and William L. Shirer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 2,873 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Brumel (1460), Gilbert Simondon (1924), Pierre Rode (1774), Guillaume de Sonnac (1200), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), and Pierre Fauchard (1679). After him are Christian Ferras (1933), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739), Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809), Colette of Corbie (1381), and Laurent de La Hyre (1606).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 54. Before him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Henri Tresca (1814), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), and Jules Jamin (1818). After him are Gaspard de Prony (1755), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jacques Babinet (1794), Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), and Alfred Perot (1863).

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