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Walther Ritz

1878 - 1909

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Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walther Ritz has received more than 51,926 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Walther Ritz is the 499th most popular physicist (down from 450th in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 271st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Ritz ranks 499 out of 851. Before him are Alexei Starobinsky, William Robert Grove, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Raoul Pictet, Walter Heitler, and Ira Sprague Bowen. After him are Richard Mollier, Claude Pouillet, Théophile de Donder, Jakob II Bernoulli, Edwin H. Land, and Gene Amdahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Walther Ritz ranks 113. Before him are Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Myer Prinstein, J. F. C. Fuller, Clara Westhoff, Ioannis Rallis, and Karl Buresch. After him are Takeo Arishima, Louis Marcoussis, Emmy Destinn, Sergio Osmeña, Selim Palmgren, and Paul Renner. Among people deceased in 1909, Walther Ritz ranks 51. Before him are Robert Hausmann, Margarete Steiff, Emil Christian Hansen, Charles-Louis Philippe, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, and Rodolphe Lindt. After him are Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, Alessandro Fortis, Paul Ranson, Pascual Cervera y Topete, Helena Modjeska, and Futabatei Shimei.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walther Ritz ranks 311 out of 1,015. Before him are James Pradier (1790), Johann Schneider-Ammann (1952), Raoul Pictet (1846), Michele Besso (1873), Doris Leuthard (1963), and Rodolphe Lindt (1855). After him are Edgar Schein (1928), Orgetorix (null), Cuno Amiet (1868), Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), and Pierre Tirard (1827).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Walther Ritz ranks 10. Before him are Felix Bloch (1905), Auguste Piccard (1884), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), and Raoul Pictet (1846). After him are Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Alfred Kleiner (1849), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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