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Walter Gordon

1893 - 1939

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Walter Gordon (13 August 1893 – 24 December 1939) was a German theoretical physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Gordon has received more than 5,144 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Gordon is the 732nd most popular physicist, the 5,132nd most popular biography from Germany and the 96th most popular German Physicist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter Gordon ranks 732 out of 851. Before him are Harvey Fletcher, Rudolf Haag, Henrik Svensmark, Julian Barbour, C. R. Hagen, and Joseph Polchinski. After him are Raja Ramanna, Derek J. de Solla Price, Seymour Benzer, John Aitken, Gersh Budker, and Alan Cottrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Walter Gordon ranks 240. Before him are Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, Harlow Curtice, Giovanni Scatturin, Victor Verschueren, Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, and Willi Apel. After him are Norman Bel Geddes, Katharine Cornell, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Steingrímur Steinþórsson, Elizabeth Cotten, and Betty Blythe. Among people deceased in 1939, Walter Gordon ranks 148. Before him are Frank Wild, Caius Welcker, Perikles Kakousis, Lili Bech, Alvah Meyer, and James Parrott. After him are Louis Eugène Roy, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, Boris Shchukin, Joseph Lyons, Robert Farnan, and Siegfried Flesch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Gordon ranks 5,132 out of 7,253. Before him are Julius Körner (1870), Werner Klingler (1903), Heidi Kabel (1914), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897), and Don Zagier (1951). After him are Gustav-Adolf Schur (1931), Erich Hamann (1944), Malu Dreyer (1961), Heinrich Schomburgk (1885), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walter Gordon ranks 96. Before him are Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Gregor Wentzel (1898), Pief Panofsky (1919), and Rudolf Haag (1922). After him are Ernst Ising (1900), Arthur Schuster (1851), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Rolf Landauer (1927), Jürgen Kurths (1953), and Hedwig Kohn (1887).

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