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Fritz London

1900 - 1954

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Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954) was a German born physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces) are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on five separate occasions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz London is the 313th most popular chemist (up from 364th in 2019), the 333rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 557th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fritz London ranks 313 out of 602. Before him are Kamala Sohonie, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Andreas Libavius, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, and William Henry. After him are Anselme Payen, Smithson Tennant, Aziz Sancar, Yuan T. Lee, Michael Smith, and William Henry Perkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Fritz London ranks 79. Before him are Filipp Golikov, Sālote Tupou III, Rudolf Diels, Ernst Krenek, Robert Siodmak, and William Heinesen. After him are Franz Walter Stahlecker, Karin Boye, Violet Brown, Joseph Needham, Helene Weigel, and Robert Desnos. Among people deceased in 1954, Fritz London ranks 39. Before him are Hannes Meyer, Thea von Harbou, Franco Alfano, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Archduke Eugen of Austria, and Theodore Lyman IV. After him are Princess Margaret of Prussia, Marianne Weber, Günther Quandt, Stig Dagerman, Viktor Abakumov, and Wilhelm Schmidt.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fritz London ranks 333 out of 1,694. Before him are Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Vitello (1230), Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (1116), Kurt Tank (1898), Bolesław V the Chaste (1226), and Eberhard von Mackensen (1889). After him are Leopold Trepper (1904), Franciszek Macharski (1927), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Ivan Vyhovsky (1608), Barbara Brylska (1941), and Roman Dmowski (1864).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Fritz London ranks 14. Before him are Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), and Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822). After him are Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Sendivogius (1566), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Czochralski (1885), Alfred Stock (1876), and Hugo Erdmann (1862).

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