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Walter Heitler

1904 - 1981

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Walter Heinrich Heitler (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈhaɪtlɐ]; 2 January 1904 – 15 November 1981) was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Heitler has received more than 111,720 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Heitler is the 497th most popular physicist (down from 454th in 2019), the 3,207th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,885th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter Heitler ranks 497 out of 851. Before him are Johann Heinrich Schulze, Gordon Gould, Alexei Starobinsky, William Robert Grove, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Raoul Pictet. After him are Ira Sprague Bowen, Walther Ritz, Richard Mollier, Claude Pouillet, Théophile de Donder, and Jakob II Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Walter Heitler ranks 156. Before him are Chen Boda, Joseph Schmidt, Heinrich von Brentano, Antoun Saadeh, Armando Castellazzi, and André Leducq. After him are Pinhas Lavon, József Takács, Nikos Skalkottas, Bruce Cabot, Ibrahim Moustafa, and Ciriaco Errasti. Among people deceased in 1981, Walter Heitler ranks 107. Before him are Lanza del Vasto, Mariama Bâ, Hermann Esser, Bobby Sands, Norman Taurog, and Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza. After him are Edward Lasker, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Ricardo Wolf, Julio Libonatti, Agniya Barto, and Zoilo Saldombide.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Heitler ranks 3,207 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), Karl Mollweide (1774), Boris Pistorius (1960), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699), and Eugen Langen (1833). After him are John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665), August Karl von Goeben (1816), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Gerardus Vossius (1577), and Dieter Hoeneß (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walter Heitler ranks 70. Before him are Walther Meissner (1882), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Erich Hückel (1896), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), and Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840). After him are Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Albert Betz (1885), and Emil Warburg (1846).

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