1911 - 1993
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 136,845 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Polykarp Kusch is the 163rd most popular physicist (up from 188th in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Germany (up from 728th in 2019) and the 28th 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, Polykarp Kusch ranks 163 out of 717. Before him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Willard Boyle, Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg, and Donald A. Glaser. After him are Laura Bassi, Georges Charpak, Benjamin Thompson, James Rainwater, Syukuro Manabe, and Leon Cooper.
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 157
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 158
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 159
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 160
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 161
1926 - 2013
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 162
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 163
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 164
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 165
1753 - 1814
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 166
1917 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 167
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 168
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 169
Among people born in 1911, Polykarp Kusch ranks 27. Before him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, William Alfred Fowler, Wilhelm Mohnke, Joseph Barbera, Lê Đức Thọ, and Maurice Allais. After him are Jules Dassin, Max Frisch, Samuel Reshevsky, L. Ron Hubbard, Ginger Rogers, and William Howard Stein. Among people deceased in 1993, Polykarp Kusch ranks 19. Before him are Anthony Burgess, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, André the Giant, Inge Lehmann, Hans Jonas, and Brandon Lee. After him are Bobby Moore, W. Edwards Deming, Dizzy Gillespie, Kōbō Abe, Lillian Gish, and Bill Bixby.
1911 - 2004
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 21
1911 - 1995
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1911 - 2001
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 23
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 24
1911 - 1990
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 25
1911 - 2010
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 26
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 27
1911 - 2008
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 28
1911 - 1991
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 29
1911 - 1992
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 30
1911 - 1986
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 31
1911 - 1995
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 32
1911 - 1980
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 33
1917 - 1993
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 13
1913 - 1993
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 14
1946 - 1993
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 15
1888 - 1993
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 16
1903 - 1993
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 17
1965 - 1993
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 18
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 19
1941 - 1993
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 20
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 21
1917 - 1993
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 22
1924 - 1993
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 23
1893 - 1993
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 24
1934 - 1993
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 25
Among people born in Germany, Polykarp Kusch ranks 605 out of 6,142. Before him are Georg Büchner (1813), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Bruno Bauer (1809), Norbert of Xanten (1080), Margot Frank (1926), and Maurice de Saxe (1696). After him are August Schleicher (1821), Jürgen Stroop (1895), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744), and Roman Herzog (1934).
1813 - 1837
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 599
1783 - 1850
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 600
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 601
1080 - 1134
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 602
1926 - 1945
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 603
1696 - 1750
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 604
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 605
1821 - 1868
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 606
1895 - 1952
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 607
1884 - 1976
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 608
1941 - Present
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 609
1744 - 1818
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 610
1934 - 2017
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 611
Among physicists born in Germany, Polykarp Kusch ranks 28. Before him are Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and Hans Geiger (1882). After him are Gerd Binnig (1947), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Max Delbrück (1906), Carl von Linde (1842), and Klaus Hasselmann (1931).
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 22
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 23
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 24
1873 - 1916
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 25
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 26
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 27
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 28
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 29
1913 - 1993
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 30
1928 - Present
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 31
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 32
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 33
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 34