PHYSICIST

Ursula Franklin

1921 - 2016

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Ursula Martius Franklin (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks; and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 1986 and 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ursula Franklin has received more than 274,509 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Ursula Franklin is the 677th most popular physicist (down from 636th in 2019), the 4,763rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,163rd in 2019) and the 91st most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ursula Franklin ranks 677 out of 851. Before her are Ash Carter, John C. Slater, Yoshiaki Arata, Frederick Seitz, John Hopkinson, and Max Tegmark. After her are Edith Clarke, Paul Scherrer, John Polkinghorne, Jan Burgers, Thibault Damour, and Isaak Kikoin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ursula Franklin ranks 323. Before her are Tafari Benti, Antonino Rocca, Ilka Gedő, Mikayil Abdullayev, Egon Jönsson, and Richard Egan. After her are Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Ben Bradlee, Wu Xueqian, Edith Farkas, Walter Rudin, and Nando González. Among people deceased in 2016, Ursula Franklin ranks 360. Before her are Eliseo Prado, Bobby Vee, Hermann Kant, Mark Dvoretsky, Alfred G. Knudson, and Ottavio Bugatti. After her are Pauline Oliveros, Kurt Svensson, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Henning Enoksen, Marni Nixon, and Vera Henriksen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ursula Franklin ranks 4,763 out of 7,253. Before her are Peter Duesberg (1936), Peter Schreyer (1953), Ellen Allien (1968), Princess Marie of Hanover (1849), Katja Riemann (1963), and Carl Ebert (1887). After her are Burghart Klaußner (1949), Peter Dietrich (1944), Timo Werner (1996), Detlef Schrempf (1963), Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin (1943), and Klaus Glahn (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ursula Franklin ranks 91. Before her are Walther Müller (1905), Walter Kaufmann (1871), Alfred Landé (1888), Ralph Kronig (1904), Hans Reissner (1874), and Paul Peter Ewald (1888). After her are Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Gregor Wentzel (1898), Pief Panofsky (1919), Rudolf Haag (1922), Walter Gordon (1893), and Ernst Ising (1900).

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