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Gregor Wentzel

1898 - 1978

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Gregor Wentzel (17 February 1898 – 12 August 1978) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, superconductivity and meson theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregor Wentzel is the 733rd most popular physicist (down from 702nd in 2019), the 5,128th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,894th in 2019) and the 99th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gregor Wentzel ranks 733 out of 851. Before him are Nicholas Metropolis, Gerald Guralnik, Karl Taylor Compton, Walter Gordon, Arthur Schuster, and James Hartle. After him are Roald Sagdeev, Mordehai Milgrom, Valentine Telegdi, Vilho Väisälä, Seymour Benzer, and Peter Mark Roget.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Gregor Wentzel ranks 258. Before him are Mario Mattoli, Leila Denmark, Édouard Candeveau, Carl Johnson, Eugène Dabit, and Vincent Youmans. After him are Konstantinos Dovas, Antonio Urdinarán, Domingo Acedo, Scott O'Dell, H. A. Rey, and Boško Simonović. Among people deceased in 1978, Gregor Wentzel ranks 219. Before him are Imre Rajczy, Chill Wills, Nagamichi Kuroda, Oliver Leese, Jan Parandowski, and Maja Berezowska. After him are Jorge Icaza Coronel, Matti Lähde, Maggie McNamara, Blossom Rock, Theo Helfrich, and Jorge de Sena.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gregor Wentzel ranks 5,131 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Kaufmann (1921), Karl Jatho (1873), Martin Schröttle (1901), Michaela Schaffrath (1970), Arne Friedrich (1979), and Heinrich Schroth (1871). After him are Sabine Schmitz (1969), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Cha Du-ri (1980), Karl Allgöwer (1957), Herbert Schade (1922), and Carl Ebert (1887).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gregor Wentzel ranks 99. Before him are Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Ernst Ising (1900), Rudolf Haag (1922), Walter Gordon (1893), and Arthur Schuster (1851). After him are Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Hans Reissner (1874), Rolf Landauer (1927), Werner Israel (1931), Hedwig Kohn (1887), and Sabine Hossenfelder (1976).

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