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Alfred Kastler

1902 - 1984

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Alfred Kastler (French: [kastlɛʁ]; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Kastler is the 126th most popular physicist (down from 107th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from France (up from 471st in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Physicist.

Alfred Kastler was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 for his work on the scattering of electromagnetic waves. He is most famous for his work on the Kastler-Brossel effect.

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Among physicists, Alfred Kastler ranks 126 out of 851. Before him are François Arago, Albert Fert, Owen Chamberlain, Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. After him are Josiah Willard Gibbs, William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Compton, Simon van der Meer, James Rainwater, and Carl Zeiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alfred Kastler ranks 16. Before him are Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Fernand Braudel. After him are Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Talcott Parsons, André Michel Lwoff, and Josemaría Escrivá. Among people deceased in 1984, Alfred Kastler ranks 10. Before him are Richard Burton, Marvin Gaye, Paul Dirac, François Truffaut, Truman Capote, and James Mason. After him are Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, Mikhail Sholokhov, Julio Cortázar, Johnny Weissmuller, and Stanislaw Ulam.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 420 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Bernard (1813), James I of Aragon (1208), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), and Émilie du Châtelet (1706). After him are Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Louise Bourgeois (1911), Pierre Laval (1883), Francis Poulenc (1899), and Fernandel (1903).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alfred Kastler ranks 13. Before him are Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Albert Fert (1938). After him are Hans Bethe (1906), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788).

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