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Polykarp Kusch

1911 - 1993

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Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993) was a German-born American physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Polykarp Kusch has received more than 144,652 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Polykarp Kusch is the 176th most popular physicist (down from 163rd in 2019), the 600th most popular biography from Germany (up from 605th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Physicist.

Polykarp Kusch is most famous for his work in the field of color and color theory. His most famous work, "Die Grundlagen der Physikalischen Optik" (the fundamentals of physical optics), was published in 1866.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Polykarp Kusch ranks 176 out of 851. Before him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Hans Georg Dehmelt, George E. Smith, Tsung-Dao Lee, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, and Emilio Segrè. After him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Martin Lewis Perl, Alexander Prokhorov, Satyendra Nath Bose, James Rainwater, and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Polykarp Kusch ranks 26. Before him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Robert Johnson, Tennessee Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Maurice Allais, and Wilhelm Mohnke. After him are Joseph Barbera, Jean Harlow, Jules Dassin, Milovan Đilas, William Alfred Fowler, and Bernard Katz. Among people deceased in 1993, Polykarp Kusch ranks 20. Before him are Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, André the Giant, Bobby Moore, Hans Jonas, Albert Sabin, and Inge Lehmann. After him are Kōbō Abe, Bill Bixby, Wolfgang Paul, Brandon Lee, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and Dizzy Gillespie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Polykarp Kusch ranks 600 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Brüning (1885), Karl Gebhardt (1897), August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Fritz Walter (1920), and Bruno Bauer (1809). After him are Felix Hoffmann (1868), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Sandra (1962), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), and Julia Drusilla (16).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Polykarp Kusch ranks 30. Before him are Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Hans Geiger (1882), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922). After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), and Klaus Hasselmann (1931).

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