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Friedrich Hirzebruch

1927 - 2012

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Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Hirzebruch is the 495th most popular mathematician (down from 488th in 2019), the 3,053rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,281st in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 495 out of 1,004. Before him are Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Pierre Vernier, Otto Hölder, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Lazarus Fuchs, and Simon von Stampfer. After him are Stephen Cole Kleene, Pierre Wantzel, Aleksandr Khinchin, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Issai Schur, and Paul Halmos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 182. Before him are Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Carlos Romero, Werner Liebrich, John Ashbery, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, and Ahmad Jannati. After him are Ales Adamovich, Joe Turkel, Paula Hawkins, Gisèle Halimi, Eugene Parker, and Patti Page. Among people deceased in 2012, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 167. Before him are George McGovern, Pavel Grachev, Ivica Horvat, Adrienne Rich, George Knobel, and Josef Škvorecký. After him are Manuel Fraga, Shulamith Firestone, Fiorenzo Magni, Angelo Dundee, Lisa Della Casa, and Russell Means.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 3,055 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolph Frank (1834), Konrad Duden (1829), Stefan Heym (1913), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Alojs Andritzki (1914), and Karl Wittgenstein (1847). After him are Solomon Perel (1925), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Justinus Kerner (1786), and Ferdinand Reich (1799).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Friedrich Hirzebruch ranks 59. Before him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Abraham Fraenkel (1891), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Hermann Hankel (1839), Karl Mollweide (1774), and Otto Hölder (1859). After him are Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843), Henryk Zygalski (1908), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Max Dehn (1878), Jordanus de Nemore (null), and Adam Ries (1492).

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