1962 - Today
Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhɛl] : born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stefan Hell has received more than 256,313 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Stefan Hell is the 456th most popular physicist (up from 467th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Romania (down from 195th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Stefan Hell ranks 456 out of 717. Before him are Walther Ritz, Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Giovanni Poleni, Walter Heitler, and Alan Sokal. After him are Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, Yuri Orlov, Max Abraham, and Marian Smoluchowski.
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 450
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 451
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 452
1683 - 1761
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 453
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 454
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 455
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 456
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 457
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 458
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 459
1924 - 2020
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 460
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 461
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 462
Among people born in 1962, Stefan Hell ranks 96. Before him are Matteo Messina Denaro, Manute Bol, Adam Baldwin, Tsutomu Miyazaki, James Michael Tyler, and Melissa Sue Anderson. After him are Paula Abdul, Ron McGovney, Thomas Gibson, Seiko Matsuda, Antti Rinne, and Danny Huston.
1962 - 2023
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 90
1962 - 2010
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 91
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 92
1962 - 2008
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 93
1962 - 2021
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 94
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 95
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 96
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 97
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 98
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 99
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 100
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 101
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 102
Among people born in Romania, Stefan Hell ranks 196 out of 665. Before him are Ion C. Brătianu (1821), Dudu Georgescu (1950), Ana Blandiana (1942), Helmuth Duckadam (1959), Péter Eötvös (1944), and Titu Maiorescu (1840). After him are Simon Hollósy (1857), Mircea Cărtărescu (1956), Franz Rohr von Denta (1854), Ilie Verdeț (1925), Alexander I Aldea (1397), and Maria Tănase (1913).
1821 - 1891
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 190
1950 - Present
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 191
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 192
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 193
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 194
1840 - 1917
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 195
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 196
1857 - 1918
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 197
1956 - Present
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 198
1854 - 1927
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 199
1925 - 2001
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 200
1397 - 1436
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 201
1913 - 1963
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 202
Among physicists born in Romania, Stefan Hell ranks 2. Before him are Valentin Ceaușescu (1948). After him are Mario Livio (1945).
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 3