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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 67,326 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph Kronig is the 642nd most popular physicist (down from 611th in 2019), the 4,500th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,025th in 2019) and the 88th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ralph Kronig ranks 642 out of 851. Before him are Tullio Regge, Victor J. Stenger, Harriet Brooks, Gerald Guralnik, Isaak Khalatnikov, and Charles Stark Draper. After him are Ferdinand Monoyer, Frederick Guthrie, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Ali Javan, William Higinbotham, and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Ralph Kronig ranks 230. Before him are Gregg Toland, Ancel Keys, Käthe von Nagy, August Jakobson, François Marty, and Jānis Daliņš. After him are Sergio Amidei, Rudolf Burkert, Gino Rossetti, Boris Babochkin, Keye Luke, and Julio Quintana. Among people deceased in 1995, Ralph Kronig ranks 218. Before him are Priscilla Lane, Peter Grant, Massimo Pallottino, Boris Ponomarev, Frank Silva, and Jean Tardieu. After him are Carlos Lapetra, Nicolas Slonimsky, Robert Bolt, Emmanuel Roblès, René Bader, and Elizabeth Roboz Einstein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralph Kronig ranks 4,500 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1730), Franco Foda (1966), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (1803), Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1658), and Walter Sedlmayr (1926). After him are Joseph Meyer (1796), Rudolf Harbig (1913), Richard Röstel (1872), Wolfgang Nordwig (1943), Uwe Barschel (1944), and Raimond Aumann (1963).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ralph Kronig ranks 88. Before him are Heinrich Kayser (1853), Burkhard Heim (1925), Gustav Mie (1868), Walther Müller (1905), Walter Kaufmann (1871), and Alfred Landé (1888). After him are Hans Reissner (1874), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Gregor Wentzel (1898), and Pief Panofsky (1919).

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