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Walther Gerlach

1889 - 1979

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Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 – 10 August 1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walther Gerlach has received more than 132,045 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Walther Gerlach is the 405th most popular physicist (up from 426th in 2019), the 2,276th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,586th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Gerlach ranks 405 out of 851. Before him are Hantaro Nagaoka, Chester Carlson, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Nick Holonyak, Ányos Jedlik, and Rudolf Peierls. After him are John Canton, Wander Johannes de Haas, John Dollond, Edwin Hall, Stefan Hell, and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Walther Gerlach ranks 88. Before him are Mile Budak, Erle Stanley Gardner, Gabriel Hanot, Fritz Pfeffer, Willi Münzenberg, and Alexander Antonov. After him are Karel Doorman, Mikha'il Na'ima, Amedee Reyburn, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Amadeo Bordiga, and Pierre-Étienne Flandin. Among people deceased in 1979, Walther Gerlach ranks 82. Before him are Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Kessel, Henrich Focke, Waldemar de Brito, and Amir-Abbas Hoveyda. After him are Teruo Nakamura, Merle Oberon, Ahmad Zahir, Preguinho, Philippe Halsman, and Santos Urdinarán.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Gerlach ranks 2,276 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie Amelie of Baden (1817), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Bert Kaempfert (1923), Hieronymus Bock (1498), and Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (1871). After him are Eugen Meindl (1892), Balthasar Hubmaier (1485), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Wilhelm Souchon (1864), and Ernst von Salomon (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Gerlach ranks 60. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Paul Drude (1863), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), and Rudolf Peierls (1907). After him are Johanna Budwig (1908), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walther Meissner (1882), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), and Erich Hückel (1896).

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