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MATHEMATICIAN

Richard Rado

1906 - 1989

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Richard Rado FRS (28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. He was Jewish and left Germany to escape Nazi persecution. He earned two PhDs: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Rado has received more than 43,202 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Richard Rado is the 802nd most popular mathematician (down from 775th in 2019), the 4,631st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,221st in 2019) and the 89th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Rado ranks 802 out of 823. Before him are Roger Apéry, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Solomon Marcus, Ivan Petrovsky, Yasumasa Kanada, and Garrett Birkhoff. After him are Stanislav Smirnov, Marston Morse, Harish-Chandra, Ormond Stone, Anatoly Maltsev, and Horace Lamb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Richard Rado ranks 336. Before him are Clifford Odets, Knut Kroon, Carl-Erik Holmberg, Vincent Sherman, René Fernández, and Hugh Gaitskell. After him are Ludwig Lachmann, Cuth Harrison, Robert Surtees, Steve Anderson, Leo Halle, and Helene Costello. Among people deceased in 1989, Richard Rado ranks 239. Before him are Virgil Thomson, Manlio Di Rosa, Jimmy Murphy, Friederich Franzl, Edward Abbey, and Aleksanteri Saarvala. After him are Jim Backus, Hilda Strike, Willi Horn, Lynn Bari, Erich Herrmann, and Fernando Martín Espina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Rado ranks 4,631 out of 6,142. Before him are Thomas Reiter (1958), Johanna Klier (1952), Klaus Glahn (1942), Max Lorenz (1939), Reiner Haseloff (1954), and Katarina Barley (1968). After him are Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (1951), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Annegret Richter (1950), and Anni Holdmann (1900).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Richard Rado ranks 89. Before him are Leonard Nelson (1882), Erich Kähler (1906), Wilhelm Killing (1847), Richard Brauer (1901), Hans Rademacher (1892), and Oskar Perron (1880). After him are Heinz Prüfer (1896), Volker Strassen (1936), Christoph Gudermann (1798), and Peter Scholze (1987).

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