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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 40,585 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Valentine Telegdi is the 658th most popular physicist (down from 635th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 494th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Valentine Telegdi ranks 658 out of 717Before him are Peter Mark Roget, Lisa Randall, Gregory Breit, Hedwig Kohn, John Aitken, and George F. R. Ellis. After him are Arthur Schuster, Orest Khvolson, Max Tegmark, Stanley Mandelstam, Brandon Carter, and Antonius van den Broek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Valentine Telegdi ranks 308Before him are Ruth Roman, Lloyd La Beach, Frances Spence, José Craveirinha, Kathryn Grayson, and Per Olof Sundman. After him are Barbara Hale, José Luis Panizo, Miron Białoszewski, Guy Madison, Edwin Vásquez, and Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo. Among people deceased in 2006, Valentine Telegdi ranks 262Before him are Kasey Rogers, Mario Francesco Pompedda, S. Yizhar, Jan Twardowski, Hans Berglund, and Ted Grant. After him are Boz Burrell, Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Jane Wyatt, Proof, Liese Prokop, and Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Valentine Telegdi ranks 537 out of 866Before him are András Adorján (1950), Sándor Pósta (1888), Dániel Berzsenyi (1776), Viktor Kassai (1975), Levente Lengyel (1933), and Anna Kéthly (1889). After him are Zsuzsa Körmöczy (1924), Gabriele Possanner (1860), Lőrinc Szabó (1900), Tibor Nyilasi (1955), Judit Temes (1930), and Szilveszter Csollány (1970).

Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Valentine Telegdi ranks 9Before him are Edward Teller (1908), Leo Szilard (1898), Georg von Békésy (1899), Arpad Elo (1903), Nicholas Kurti (1908), and Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900). After him are Egon Orowan (1902).