1886 - 1976
Walter Hans Schottky (23 July 1886 – 4 March 1976) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 while working at Siemens, co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter H. Schottky has received more than 171,115 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter H. Schottky is the 356th most popular physicist (down from 345th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Physicist.
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Among physicists, Walter H. Schottky ranks 356 out of 717. Before him are Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. After him are Robert B. Laughlin, Abram Ioffe, Oskar Klein, Paul Drude, Louis Slotin, and Anna Mani.
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 350
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 351
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 352
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 353
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 354
1711 - 1753
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 355
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 356
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 357
1880 - 1960
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 358
1894 - 1977
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 359
1863 - 1906
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 360
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 361
1918 - 2001
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 362
Among people born in 1886, Walter H. Schottky ranks 75. Before him are Joe Masseria, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Victor McLaglen, Hugh Lofting, and Edward Weston. After him are Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Amédée Ozenfant, Henry H. Arnold, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Edwin Fischer, and Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.. Among people deceased in 1976, Walter H. Schottky ranks 72. Before him are Géza Anda, David Elazar, Alexandros Panagoulis, Lee J. Cobb, Willi Hennig, and Mickey Cohen. After him are Gilbert Ryle, Adolph Zukor, Mukaghali Makatayev, Yukio Goto, Orlando Letelier, and Hans Richter.
1886 - 1931
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 69
1886 - 1974
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 70
1886 - 1934
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 71
1886 - 1959
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 72
1886 - 1947
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 73
1886 - 1958
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 74
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 75
1886 - 1937
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 76
1886 - 1966
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 77
1886 - 1950
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 78
1886 - 1941
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 79
1886 - 1960
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 80
1886 - 1945
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 81
1921 - 1976
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 66
1925 - 1976
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 67
1939 - 1976
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 68
1911 - 1976
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 69
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 70
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 71
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 72
1900 - 1976
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 73
1873 - 1976
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 74
1931 - 1976
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 75
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 76
1932 - 1976
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 77
1888 - 1976
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 78
Among people born in Switzerland, Walter H. Schottky ranks 174 out of 876. Before him are Robert Frank (1924), Grock (1880), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jonas Furrer (1805), and Pietro Lombardo (1435). After him are Notker the Stammerer (840), Michel Simon (1895), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Leonardo Conti (1900), and Alexander Schallenberg (1969).
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 168
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 169
1907 - 1977
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 170
1886 - 1934
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 171
1805 - 1861
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 172
1435 - 1515
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 173
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 174
840 - 912
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 175
1895 - 1975
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 176
1934 - 2004
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 177
1559 - 1614
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 178
1900 - 1945
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 179
1969 - Present
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 180
Among physicists born in Switzerland, Walter H. Schottky ranks 8. Before him are Auguste Piccard (1884), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), K. Alex Müller (1927), and Ami Argand (1750). After him are Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Alfred Kleiner (1849), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), and Paul Scherrer (1890).
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 2
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 3
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 4
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 5
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 6
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 7
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 8
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 9
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 10
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 11
1849 - 1916
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 12
1724 - 1803
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 13
1890 - 1969
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 14