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Ralph Kronig

1904 - 1995

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Ralph Kronig (10 March 1904 – 16 November 1995) was a German physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Kronig has received more than 62,709 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ralph Kronig is the 611th most popular physicist (down from 574th in 2019), the 4,037th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,581st in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ralph Kronig ranks 611 out of 717Before him are Theodore Lyman IV, Walther Müller, Paul Scherrer, Franco Rasetti, Ali Javan, and Tullio Regge. After him are Mario Livio, Harold Brown, Toshiko Yuasa, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph H. Fowler, and John C. Slater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Ralph Kronig ranks 226Before him are Gregg Toland, Keye Luke, François Marty, Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, William Primrose, and Rafael Méndez. After him are Nnamdi Azikiwe, Bernard Lonergan, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Henry Dreyfuss, Boris Babochkin, and Lillian Copeland. Among people deceased in 1995, Ralph Kronig ranks 201Before him are Genrikh Kasparyan, Roberto Juarroz, Robertson Davies, Karl Gruber, David Wayne, and Vladislav Listyev. After him are Vic Buckingham, Nanni Loy, Kalpana Datta, Nicolas Slonimsky, V. J. Sukselainen, and Albert W. Tucker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralph Kronig ranks 4,037 out of 6,142Before him are Thomas Berthold (1964), Hilde Domin (1909), Martin Gropius (1824), Franz Delitzsch (1813), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), and Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg (1900). After him are Hermann Josef Abs (1901), Walter Momper (1945), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Cilly Aussem (1909), Christa Stubnick (1933), and Rolf Wolfshohl (1938).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ralph Kronig ranks 83Before him are Gustav Mie (1868), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), Burkhard Heim (1925), Heinrich Kayser (1853), and Walther Müller (1905). After him are Alfred Landé (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Hedwig Kohn (1887), Arthur Schuster (1851), and Pief Panofsky (1919).