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Walter Lewin

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Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin (born 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 1,850,203 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Walter Lewin is the 296th most popular astronomer (down from 223rd in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 395th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Dutch Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Walter Lewin ranks 296 out of 644. Before him are Caterina Scarpellini, Rudolph Minkowski, Zdeňka Vávrová, Iosif Shklovsky, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, and Otto Lesser. After him are Alfred Fowler, Michael van Langren, Robert T. A. Innes, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, and Carl Gustav Witt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Walter Lewin ranks 254. Before him are Toralf Engan, Carla Fracci, W. D. Hamilton, Edvard Radzinsky, Paul Shenar, and Saburō Kawabuchi. After him are Ante Žanetić, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Kazuo Koike, Michel Aumont, Feliciano Rivilla, and Sancho Gracia.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Walter Lewin ranks 538 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan van de Cappelle (1624), Abraham Pais (1918), Arnold Mühren (1951), Cornelis Tromp (1629), Dirk van der Aa (1731), and Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611). After him are Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), Anna van Egmont (1533), Michael van Langren (1598), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Henri Nouwen (1932), and Hannie Schaft (1920).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Walter Lewin ranks 11. Before him are Tom Gehrels (1925), John Goodricke (1764), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), Peter van de Kamp (1901), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), and Adriaan Blaauw (1914). After him are Michael van Langren (1598), Maarten Schmidt (1929), Eise Eisinga (1744), Adriaan van Maanen (1884), Bart Bok (1906), and Dirk Brouwer (1902).

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