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Fritjof Capra

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Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American author, physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist. In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He was on the faculty of Schumacher College which was disestablished in 2024. Capra is the author of several books, including The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), The Web of Life (1996), and The Hidden Connections (2002), and co-author of The Systems View of Life (2014). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritjof Capra is the 338th most popular physicist (down from 317th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Austria (down from 313th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Physicist.

Fritjof Capra is most famous for his book The Tao of Physics, in which he argues that the findings of modern physics support the Eastern spiritual philosophy of Taoism.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Fritjof Capra ranks 338 out of 851. Before him are Louis Paul Cailletet, Leopold Infeld, Giovanni Battista Amici, Carl Wieman, Jan Ingenhousz, and John B. Goodenough. After him are Robert B. Laughlin, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Bruno Pontecorvo, Stephen Hales, Giorgio Parisi, and Joseph Swan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Fritjof Capra ranks 89. Before him are Barry Seal, Étienne Mourrut, Scott Glenn, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Helmut Haller, and Ruggero Deodato. After him are Eugene Fama, Yoshinobu Ishii, Boris Kolker, Nobuyuki Oishi, Peter Bogdanovich, and Guntis Ulmanis.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Fritjof Capra ranks 326 out of 1,424. Before him are Erik Jan Hanussen (1889), Agnes of Austria (1151), Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909), Peter Fendi (1796), Max Adler (1873), and Joseph Mohr (1792). After him are Martin Weinek (1964), Robert Adler (1913), Rudolf Hilferding (1877), Erich Kleiber (1890), Alexander Wienerberger (1891), and Adam Albert von Neipperg (1775).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Fritjof Capra ranks 11. Before him are Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), and Otto Robert Frisch (1904). After him are Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Marietta Blau (1894), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), and Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795).

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