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Walter Heitler

1904 - 1981

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Walter Heinrich Heitler (German: [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 103,760 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Walter Heitler is the 454th most popular physicist (down from 415th in 2019), the 2,888th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,439th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter Heitler ranks 454 out of 717. Before him are William Robert Grove, Hiroshi Amano, Walther Ritz, Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, and Giovanni Poleni. After him are Alan Sokal, Stefan Hell, Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, and Yuri Orlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Walter Heitler ranks 136. Before him are Edvard Kocbek, Cecil Beaton, Edgar P. Jacobs, Chen Boda, Aparicio Méndez, and Robert Montgomery. After him are Frederick Ashton, Antoun Saadeh, Pyotr Koshevoy, Nikos Skalkottas, Bruce Cabot, and Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1981, Walter Heitler ranks 99. Before him are Mohammad Beheshti, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Jean Eustache, Mariama Bâ, and Robert Montgomery. After him are Roman Rudenko, Zdeněk Burian, Norman Taurog, Marcel Bezençon, Mostafa Chamran, and Boris Polevoy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Heitler ranks 2,888 out of 6,142. Before him are Johannes Schöner (1477), Otto Kuntze (1843), Erich Ribbeck (1937), Karl Muck (1859), Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747), and Anno II (1010). After him are Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia (1336), Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), Hans von Koessler (1853), Johann Samuel König (1712), Otto Warburg (1859), and Johannes Schmidt (1843).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walter Heitler ranks 68. Before him are Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Walther Gerlach (1889), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Heinrich Rubens (1865), and Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840). After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Otto Lehmann (1855), August Beer (1825), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Woldemar Voigt (1850), and Albert Betz (1885).

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