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Erich Hückel

1896 - 1980

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Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896, Berlin – February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is mainly known for the Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions and the Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on π electron systems. Hückel was born in the Charlottenburg suburb of Berlin. He studied physics and mathematics from 1914 to 1921 at the University of Göttingen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Hückel is the 457th most popular physicist (down from 453rd in 2019), the 2,742nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,707th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Erich Hückel ranks 457 out of 851. Before him are Albert W. Hull, Chester Carlson, Henri Tresca, Leonard Susskind, Anatole Abragam, and Rudolf Peierls. After him are Marie Alfred Cornu, Johanna Budwig, Hendrik Casimir, Clarence Zener, Jürgen Ehlers, and Carlo Matteucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Erich Hückel ranks 109. Before him are Henry Allingham, Besse Cooper, Ludwik Fleck, Tadj ol-Molouk, He Long, and Heimito von Doderer. After him are Philip Showalter Hench, Charlie Rivel, Léonide Massine, Richard Thorpe, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, and Manuel A. Odría. Among people deceased in 1980, Erich Hückel ranks 114. Before him are Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Alexander Mach, André Leducq, Toyen, Mohammed Rafi, and Pietro Nenni. After him are Hiroshi Inagaki, Leopold Kielholz, Hellmuth Walter, Ahmad Shukeiri, Dixie Dean, and Gerhard Hanappi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Hückel ranks 2,743 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul de Lagarde (1827), Philipp Spitta (1841), Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1632), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1753), and Max Slevogt (1868). After him are Doro (1964), Andrzej Seweryn (1946), Blasius Merrem (1761), Picander (1700), Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1711), and Hermann Muthesius (1861).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Erich Hückel ranks 64. Before him are Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Paul Drude (1863), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Ernst Chladni (1756), Walther Meissner (1882), and Rudolf Peierls (1907). After him are Johanna Budwig (1908), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), and Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796).

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