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Ernst Ruska

1906 - 1988

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Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈʁʊskaː] ; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Ruska is the 118th most popular physicist (down from 91st in 2019), the 295th most popular biography from Germany (down from 290th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Physicist.

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who is most famous for his invention of the electron microscope.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernst Ruska ranks 118 out of 851. Before him are Ernest Lawrence, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Heinrich Rohrer, Walther Bothe, Peter Grünberg, and Willis Lamb. After him are Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, Albert Fert, Owen Chamberlain, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Joseph von Fraunhofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ernst Ruska ranks 23. Before him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Estée Lauder, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, and Vladimir Prelog. After him are Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Roberto Rossellini, Hans Bethe, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Sayyid Qutb. Among people deceased in 1988, Ernst Ruska ranks 9. Before him are Georgy Malenkov, Richard Feynman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Nico, John Holmes, and Bacha Khan. After him are Valery Legasov, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, André Frédéric Cournand, Divine, and Robert A. Heinlein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Ruska ranks 295 out of 7,253. Before him are Sepp Dietrich (1892), Caroline Herschel (1750), Albrecht Kossel (1853), Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), John of Austria (1547), and Eduard Bernstein (1850). After him are Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Michael Ende (1929), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Frederica of Hanover (1917), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), and Walther von Reichenau (1884).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ernst Ruska ranks 17. Before him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Georg Bednorz (1950), Otto von Guericke (1602), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Walther Bothe (1891). After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and George Paget Thomson (1892).

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