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Walter Lewin

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Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin (The Hague, January 29, 1936) is a Dutch astrophysicist and retired professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology and was a member of MIT's physics faculty for 43 years beginning in 1966 until his retirement in 2009. Lewin's contributions in astrophysics include the first discovery of a rotating neutron star through all-sky balloon surveys and research in X-ray detection in investigations through satellites and observatories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Lewin has received more than 1,802,837 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Walter Lewin is the 223rd most popular astronomer (down from 185th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 329th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Walter Lewin ranks 223 out of 531. Before him are Svetlana Gerasimenko, Alfred Fowler, César-François Cassini de Thury, Heber Doust Curtis, James Ferguson, and Antonín Mrkos. After him are Tamara Smirnova, Milton L. Humason, George Ellery Hale, Nancy Roman, Thomas Gold, and John Michell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Walter Lewin ranks 178. Before him are Joaquín Peiró, Art Metrano, Dacia Maraini, A. S. Byatt, Im Kwon-taek, and Santos Abril y Castelló. After him are Walter Koenig, Polina Astakhova, Šaban Bajramović, Raymond Damadian, Joe Spinell, and Carla Bley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Walter Lewin ranks 396 out of 1,427. Before him are Alexandrine Tinné (1835), Petrus Camper (1722), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Isaac van Ostade (1621), and Bep Voskuijl (1919). After him are Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Willem Drost (1633), Roche Braziliano (1630), Herman Willem Daendels (1762), and Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Walter Lewin ranks 9. Before him are Gerard Kuiper (1905), Tom Gehrels (1925), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), and John Goodricke (1764). After him are Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Michael van Langren (1598), Maarten Schmidt (1929), Dirk Brouwer (1902), and Kees de Jager (1921).

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