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Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

1916 - 2010

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Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (19 December 1916 – 25 March 2010) was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin. The model is an explanation of how perceived public opinion can influence individual opinions or actions. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann is the 392nd most popular biologist (down from 253rd in 2019), the 2,541st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,987th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 392 out of 1,097. Before her are Louis Claude Richard, Johann Georg Wagler, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Carl Borivoj Presl, and Carl Jakob Sundevall. After her are William Elford Leach, James Bond, Alexander von Nordmann, Edwin Klebs, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Theodor Boveri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 100. Before her are Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Pérez Prado, Chiang Wei-kuo, Luis Corvalán, Jurij Brězan, and Mercedes McCambridge. After her are Sangoulé Lamizana, Edmundo Suárez, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Forrest J Ackerman, Helmut Gröttrup, and Ivo Lola Ribar. Among people deceased in 2010, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 111. Before her are Luis Corvalán, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Dick Francis, Laurent Fignon, Martin Sandberger, and Andrei Voznesensky. After her are Charlie Wilson, Alexander McQueen, Solomon Burke, Nasr Abu Zayd, Philippa Foot, and Vladimir Ilyushin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 2,542 out of 7,253. Before her are Otto Schott (1851), Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755), Adolf Meyer (1881), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), Felix Nussbaum (1904), and John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627). After her are Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1670), Walter Frentz (1907), Jacob Schiff (1847), Peter Schöffer (1420), and Bernd Rosemeyer (1909).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann ranks 72. Before her are Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Fritz Müller (1822), Otto Kuntze (1843), August Batsch (1761), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), and Johann Georg Wagler (1800). After her are Theodor Boveri (1862), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Karl Koch (1809), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), and Alexander Braun (1805).

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