MATHEMATICIAN

Theodor Kaluza

1885 - 1954

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Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (German: [kaˈluːt͡sa]; 9 November 1885 – 19 January 1954) was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza–Klein theory, involving field equations in five-dimensional space-time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Kaluza has received more than 149,291 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Theodor Kaluza is the 317th most popular mathematician (up from 321st in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 460th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Theodor Kaluza ranks 317 out of 1,004Before him are Pierre Deligne, John Graunt, John Milnor, Johannes Widmann, John G. Thompson, and Oronce Finé. After him are Gotthold Eisenstein, Abraham Wald, Igor Shafarevich, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, and Shiing-Shen Chern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Theodor Kaluza ranks 86Before him are Harlow Shapley, Jacques Feyder, Bess Truman, Platt Adams, Friedrich Kellner, and Noman Çelebicihan. After him are Lev Rudnev, Nikolai Krylenko, Alexander Shliapnikov, Lilly Reich, Dorando Pietri, and Paul von Hase. Among people deceased in 1954, Theodor Kaluza ranks 48Before him are Ahmed Nihad, Viktor Abakumov, Gideon Sundback, Oscar Straus, Lionel Barrymore, and Stig Dagerman. After him are Claude Cahun, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, James Hilton, Jacob Tullin Thams, Robert H. Jackson, and Emil Leon Post.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Theodor Kaluza ranks 442 out of 1,694Before him are Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Krakus (null), Alfred Flatow (1869), Dita Parlo (1906), Joachim Kroll (1933), and Max Simon (1899). After him are Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464), Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Lubomyr Husar (1933), Jacek Malczewski (1854), and Gustav Freytag (1816).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Theodor Kaluza ranks 15Before him are Hermann Grassmann (1809), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Vitello (1230). After him are Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Emil Leon Post (1897), Klaus Roth (1925), Richard Courant (1888), Abraham Robinson (1918), and Michael O. Rabin (1931).