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Rolf-Dieter Heuer

1948 - Today

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Rolf-Dieter Heuer (German: [ʁɔlf ˈdiːtɐ ˈhɔʏɐ]; born 24 May 1948) is a German particle physicist. From 2009 to 2015 he was Director General of CERN and from 5 April 2016 to 9 April 2018 President of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rolf-Dieter Heuer has received more than 67,306 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Rolf-Dieter Heuer is the 755th most popular physicist (down from 707th in 2019), the 5,300th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,642nd in 2019) and the 99th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rolf-Dieter Heuer ranks 755 out of 851Before him are Miguel Alcubierre, Arthur Schuster, Grigory Landsberg, Lene Hau, Conyers Herring, and Bengt Edlén. After him are Yoseph Imry, Balfour Stewart, Rolf Landauer, Valentine Telegdi, Robert Marshak, and Jürgen Kurths.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Rolf-Dieter Heuer ranks 597Before him are Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Bonfoh Abass, Rosemary Casals, Lydie Salvayre, Julia Donaldson, and Garrick Ohlsson. After him are Ted Lange, Edward Lachman, John Gray, Viktor Matviyenko, Lesław Ćmikiewicz, and Norair Nurikyan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rolf-Dieter Heuer ranks 5,300 out of 7,253Before him are Otto Fickeisen (1879), Stefan Schwarzmann (1965), Dietmar Bartsch (1958), Timur Vermes (1967), Heinz Wewers (1927), and Inge Keller (1923). After him are Monika Maron (1941), Hans Liesche (1891), Kevin Großkreutz (1988), Brigitte Kronauer (1940), Caspar Memering (1953), and Matthias Platzeck (1953).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rolf-Dieter Heuer ranks 99Before him are Gregor Wentzel (1898), Pief Panofsky (1919), Rudolf Haag (1922), Walter Gordon (1893), Ernst Ising (1900), and Arthur Schuster (1851). After him are Rolf Landauer (1927), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Hedwig Kohn (1887), Werner Israel (1931), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), and Sabine Hossenfelder (1976).