PHYSICIST

Valentine Telegdi

1922 - 2006

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Valentine Louis Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-American physicist. He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich. After retiring from ETH he divided his time between CERN and the California Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentine Telegdi has received more than 44,914 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Valentine Telegdi is the 759th most popular physicist (down from 658th in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 536th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Valentine Telegdi ranks 759 out of 851. Before him are Conyers Herring, Bengt Edlén, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Yoseph Imry, Balfour Stewart, and Rolf Landauer. After him are Robert Marshak, Jürgen Kurths, Peter Zoller, Anatoly Logunov, Sidney Coleman, and Robert Bacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Valentine Telegdi ranks 388. Before him are Herbert Schade, Roberto Lovera, Héctor Rossetto, Janis Paige, Elsa Joubert, and Jeanne Sauvé. After him are Jacques Pollet, Arthur Hill, Haskell Wexler, Alain de Changy, Nicholas Katzenbach, and Patricia Canning Todd. Among people deceased in 2006, Valentine Telegdi ranks 331. Before him are Doug Serrurier, Östen Warnerbring, Gösta Sandberg, Bertha Brouwer, Óscar González, and Claude Esteban. After him are Arthur Hill, Robert Lockwood Jr., Philippa Pearce, Lou Jones, Pierre Amine Gemayel, and Rubén Marcos.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Valentine Telegdi ranks 722 out of 1,077. Before him are Bertalan Papp (1913), György Bessenyei (1747), Pál Gábor (1932), Barbara Palvin (1993), Antal Kocsis (1905), and Ernő Goldfinger (1902). After him are Teréz Karacs (1808), Tamás Gábor (1932), Ádám Szalai (1987), József Várszegi (1910), Tibor Csík (1927), and Vilmos Varjú (1937).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Valentine Telegdi ranks 10. Before him are Dennis Gabor (1900), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ferenc Krausz (1962), Arpad Elo (1903), Nicholas Kurti (1908), and Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900). After him are Egon Orowan (1902).

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