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Rudolf Haag

1922 - 2016

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Rudolf Haag (17 August 1922 – 5 January 2016) was a German theoretical physicist, who mainly dealt with fundamental questions of quantum field theory. He was one of the founders of the modern formulation of quantum field theory and he identified the formal structure in terms of the principle of locality and local observables. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Haag has received more than 64,927 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rudolf Haag is the 727th most popular physicist (down from 723rd in 2019), the 5,086th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,750th in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Haag ranks 727 out of 851. Before him are Pief Panofsky, Roald Sagdeev, Nikolay Umov, John Joly, Howard P. Robertson, and Harvey Fletcher. After him are Henrik Svensmark, Julian Barbour, C. R. Hagen, Joseph Polchinski, Walter Gordon, and Raja Ramanna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Rudolf Haag ranks 358. Before him are Herbert MacKay-Fraser, Umberto Betti, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Melvin Laird, Gustaf Jansson, and Lukas Foss. After him are Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Jim Pollard, Milton H. Greene, Don Patinkin, Ray Anthony, and Nino Bibbia. Among people deceased in 2016, Rudolf Haag ranks 427. Before him are Velimir Sombolac, Gunnel Vallquist, Ferreira Gullar, Melvin Laird, Bertil Roos, and Kimbo Slice. After him are Nené, Carlo Monti, Silvano Piovanelli, Kunio Hatoyama, Roger Dumas, and Dušanka Sifnios.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Haag ranks 5,086 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Uli Kusch (1967), Martin Kippenberger (1953), Jürgen Sundermann (1940), Bernhard Minetti (1905), and Wolfgang Hohlbein (1953). After him are Uwe Reinders (1955), Bernd Dürnberger (1953), Therese Zenz (1932), Willi Holdorf (1940), Gustav von Seyffertitz (1862), and Tim Wiese (1981).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Haag ranks 95. Before him are Hans Reissner (1874), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Gregor Wentzel (1898), and Pief Panofsky (1919). After him are Walter Gordon (1893), Ernst Ising (1900), Arthur Schuster (1851), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Rolf Landauer (1927), and Jürgen Kurths (1953).

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