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Walther Meissner

1882 - 1974

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Fritz Walther Meißner (anglicized: Meissner) (16 December 1882 – 16 November 1974) was a German technical physicist. Meißner was born in Berlin to Waldemar Meißner and Johanna Greger. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin), his doctoral supervisor being Max Planck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walther Meissner has received more than 79,923 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Walther Meissner is the 442nd most popular physicist (down from 404th in 2019), the 2,546th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,368th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Meissner ranks 442 out of 851. Before him are Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, Robert W. Wood, and Heinrich Rubens. After him are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Richard C. Tolman, Gabriele Veneziano, Meghnad Saha, Johannes Franz Hartmann, and Lyman Spitzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Walther Meissner ranks 110. Before him are Harry Porter, Bronisław Huberman, Anna Schäffer, Aurel Vlaicu, Inayat Khan, and Emma Jung. After him are Robert Hichens, Kamo, Otto Weddigen, Charles Devendeville, James F. Byrnes, and Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1974, Walther Meissner ranks 89. Before him are Bernard Voorhoof, Roberto Assagioli, Maximilian de Angelis, Helmuth Koinigg, Anfilogino Guarisi, and Vladimir Fock. After him are Messali Hadj, Donald Crisp, Georgios Grivas, Josef Krips, Earl Warren, and Abraham Robinson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Meissner ranks 2,546 out of 7,253. Before him are Charlotte Buff (1753), Herms Niel (1888), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Julius Klaproth (1783), Sebald Beham (1500), and Axel Rudi Pell (1960). After him are Uli Jon Roth (1954), Erich Neumann (1892), Honoratus (365), Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814), Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), and Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Meissner ranks 64. Before him are Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johanna Budwig (1908), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), and Heinrich Rubens (1865). After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Erich Hückel (1896), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Walter Heitler (1904).

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