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Wolfgang Ketterle

1957 - Today

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Wolfgang Ketterle (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɛtɐlə] ; born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Ketterle has received more than 233,036 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Wolfgang Ketterle is the 388th most popular physicist (down from 384th in 2019), the 2,054th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,144th in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Physicist.

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  • 56.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Wolfgang Ketterle has had the most page views in the with 26,676 views, followed by German (8,707), and Chinese (4,259). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (210.75%), Haitian (115.80%), and Korean (109.72%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 388 out of 851. Before him are Hiroshi Amano, Oskar Klein, Christopher Polhem, Sameera Moussa, Robert Brout, and Louis Poinsot. After him are George Johnstone Stoney, John Henry Poynting, Franz Aepinus, Friedrich Paschen, Léon Brillouin, and Friedrich Ernst Dorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 70. Before him are Adrian Smith, Bamir Topi, Carrie Lam, Włodzimierz Smolarek, Timothy Spall, and Joaquim de Almeida. After him are Janick Gers, Lucien Favre, Klaus Augenthaler, Fred Vargas, Antonio Cabrini, and Alu Alkhanov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 2,054 out of 7,253. Before him are Ralf Hütter (1946), Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1425), Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688), George Müller (1805), Veit Harlan (1899), and Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727). After him are Fredrik Pacius (1809), Walter Heitz (1878), Bernd Hölzenbein (1946), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), and Friedrich Kellner (1885).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wolfgang Ketterle ranks 56. Before him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), and Paul Drude (1863). After him are Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johanna Budwig (1908), and Charles Galton Darwin (1887).

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