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Wolfgang Paul

1913 - 1993

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Wolfgang Paul (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈpaʊ̯l] ; 10 August 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Paul has received more than 183,606 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Wolfgang Paul is the 190th most popular physicist (up from 193rd in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from Germany (up from 745th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Physicist.

Wolfgang Paul is most famous for his discovery of the element Hafnium.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wolfgang Paul ranks 190 out of 851. Before him are Martinus J. G. Veltman, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Klaus von Klitzing, Charles H. Townes, David Bohm, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. After him are Benjamin Thompson, Robert H. Goddard, Nikolay Basov, Douglas Osheroff, Herbert Kroemer, and Edward Mills Purcell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Wolfgang Paul ranks 34. Before him are Bảo Đại, Carmen Amaya, Stanford Moore, Trevor Howard, Frances Farmer, and Irwin Shaw. After him are Leônidas, Werner Mölders, Albert Ellis, Jimmy Hoffa, Artur Axmann, and René Clément. Among people deceased in 1993, Wolfgang Paul ranks 23. Before him are Hans Jonas, Albert Sabin, Inge Lehmann, Polykarp Kusch, Kōbō Abe, and Bill Bixby. After him are Brandon Lee, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Dizzy Gillespie, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, W. Edwards Deming, and Lillian Gish.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Paul ranks 634 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), Franz Brentano (1838), Heinrich Lübke (1894), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), and Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653). After him are George Grosz (1893), Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668), Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (1655), Michael Thonet (1796), Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779), and Erich Hoepner (1886).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wolfgang Paul ranks 32. Before him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Polykarp Kusch (1911), and Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887). After him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), and Rainer Weiss (1932).

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