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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 Technical University of Berlin, his doctoral supervisor being Max Planck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walther Meissner has received more than 73,288 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Meissner is the 404th most popular physicist (down from 401st in 2019), the 2,371st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,310th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Meissner ranks 404 out of 717. Before him are Georgy Flyorov, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Victor Weisskopf, John Kerr, Hagen Kleinert, and Johann Heinrich Schulze. After him are Jurij Vega, Marietta Blau, Gabriele Veneziano, Carlo Matteucci, Louis Harold Gray, and Samuel Goudsmit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Walther Meissner ranks 108. Before him are Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Max Decugis, Vilém Mathesius, and Kâzım Karabekir. After him are Otto Weddigen, James F. Byrnes, Joseph Cardijn, Karl Rapp, Shigenori Tōgō, and Kamo. Among people deceased in 1974, Walther Meissner ranks 82. Before him are Jean Absil, Kurt Atterberg, Ed Sullivan, Christine Chubbuck, Wang Ming, and Roberto Assagioli. After him are Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Candy Darling, Lev Oborin, Rosario Castellanos, Maximilian de Angelis, and Vladimir Fock.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Meissner ranks 2,371 out of 6,142. Before him are Oskar Fischinger (1900), Günter Wallraff (1942), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), Franz Abt (1819), and Dorothea Erxleben (1715). After him are Guido Buchwald (1961), Balthasar Hubmaier (1485), Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522), Gottfried von Cramm (1909), Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1735), and Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Meissner ranks 60. Before him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Franz Aepinus (1724), Johanna Budwig (1908), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Friedrich Paschen (1865), and Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687). After him are Erich Hückel (1896), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Walther Gerlach (1889), Rudolf Peierls (1907), and Heinrich Rubens (1865).

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