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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 119,270 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Walther Gerlach is the 426th most popular physicist (down from 402nd in 2019), the 2,589th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,325th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Gerlach ranks 426 out of 717. Before him are Heinrich Barkhausen, Martin Knudsen, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Jules Jamin, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and Yulii Khariton. After him are Rudolf Peierls, Evgeny Lifshitz, Alain Aspect, Sameera Moussa, Marie Alfred Cornu, and John Dollond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Walther Gerlach ranks 102. Before him are Amadeo Bordiga, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Maximilian de Angelis, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mikha'il Na'ima, and Abdelhamid Ben Badis. After him are Warner Baxter, Henri Pélissier, Kōichi Kido, Isak Samokovlija, Ernst Niekisch, and Lev Mekhlis. Among people deceased in 1979, Walther Gerlach ranks 94. Before him are James J. Gibson, Catherine Hessling, Santos Urdinarán, Léonide Massine, Immanuel Velikovsky, and August Heissmeyer. After him are Vagif Mustafazadeh, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Henrich Focke, Merle Oberon, Morteza Motahhari, and Zeppo Marx.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Gerlach ranks 2,589 out of 6,142. Before him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), August Heissmeyer (1897), Anni Albers (1899), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863), and Andre Gunder Frank (1929). After him are Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (1843), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Ewald Hering (1834), Prince William of Baden (1829), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), and Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Gerlach ranks 64. Before him are Friedrich Paschen (1865), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Walther Meissner (1882), Erich Hückel (1896), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), and Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865). After him are Rudolf Peierls (1907), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Walter Heitler (1904), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), and Otto Lehmann (1855).

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