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Theodor W. Hänsch

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Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈhɛnʃ] ; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor W. Hänsch has received more than 171,768 page views. Her biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Theodor W. Hänsch is the 229th most popular physicist (up from 250th in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from Germany (up from 991st in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Theodor W. Hänsch ranks 229 out of 851. Before her are John Clauser, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy J. Glauber, Frederick Reines, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. After her are Edme Mariotte, Makoto Kobayashi, Burton Richter, Joseph Plateau, Serge Haroche, and Horst Ludwig Störmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Theodor W. Hänsch ranks 65. Before her are Viktor Zubkov, Claudine Auger, Pierre Agostini, Jacques Perrin, Ray Tomlinson, and Ivica Osim. After her are Roberto Carlos, Jürgen Prochnow, Chick Corea, Franco Columbu, Milan Kučan, and Jules A. Hoffmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodor W. Hänsch ranks 779 out of 7,253. Before her are Therese Neumann (1898), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Gustav Radbruch (1878), Wilhelm Cuno (1876), Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), and Franz Joseph Gall (1758). After her are Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707), Theodor Fontane (1819), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Udo Kier (1944), and Matthias Erzberger (1875).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Theodor W. Hänsch ranks 34. Before her are Gerd Binnig (1947), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Wolfgang Paul (1913), and Herbert Kroemer (1928). After her are Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), Rainer Weiss (1932), Max Delbrück (1906), and August Kundt (1839).

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