1952 - Today
Reinhard Genzel (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈɡɛntsl̩] ; born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose. In a 2021 interview given to Federal University of Pará in Brazil, Genzel recalls his journey as a physicist; the influence of his father, Ludwig Genzel; his experiences working with Charles H. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reinhard Genzel has received more than 277,371 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Reinhard Genzel is the 103rd most popular astronomer (up from 496th in 2019), the 1,305th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,347th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Reinhard Genzel ranks 103 out of 531. Before him are William Huggins, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Karl Ludwig Hencke, J. Allen Hynek, James Van Allen, and Mary Somerville. After him are Frank Drake, Edward Charles Pickering, George Biddell Airy, Ernst Öpik, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Carolyn S. Shoemaker.
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 97
1892 - 1979
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 98
1793 - 1866
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 99
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 100
1914 - 2006
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 101
1780 - 1872
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 102
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 103
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 104
1846 - 1919
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 105
1801 - 1892
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 106
1893 - 1985
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 107
1900 - 1979
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 108
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 109
Among people born in 1952, Reinhard Genzel ranks 61. Before him are Charles Scott Sherrington, Gus Van Sant, George Papandreou, Didier Pironi, Stephen Lang, and Ari Vatanen. After him are Irina Bokova, Robin Hobb, Osvaldo Ardiles, Joel Silver, Diana Gabaldon, and Imran Khan.
1952 - 1952
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 55
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 56
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 57
1952 - 1987
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 58
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 59
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 60
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 61
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 62
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 63
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 64
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 65
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 66
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 67
Among people born in Germany, Reinhard Genzel ranks 1,305 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), Bert Sakmann (1942), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), and Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840). After him are Mesut Özil (1988), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), Karl Löwith (1897), Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), and W. G. Sebald (1944).
1833 - 1897
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,299
1784 - 1849
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 1,300
1759 - 1824
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 1,301
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 1,302
1817 - 1852
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 1,303
1840 - 1858
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 1,304
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 1,305
1988 - Present
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 1,306
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 1,307
1785 - 1851
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,308
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,309
1849 - 1893
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,310
1944 - 2001
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,311
Among astronomers born in Germany, Reinhard Genzel ranks 19. Before him are Walter Baade (1893), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Petrus Apianus (1495), David Fabricius (1564), Johann Elert Bode (1747), and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892). After him are Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Arthur Auwers (1838), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), and Hermann Goldschmidt (1802).
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 13
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 14
1495 - 1552
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 15
1564 - 1617
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 16
1747 - 1826
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 17
1892 - 1979
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 18
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 19
1789 - 1875
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 20
1838 - 1915
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 21
1921 - 2015
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 22
1591 - 1666
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 23
1813 - 1890
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 24
1802 - 1866
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 25