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Grete Hermann

1901 - 1984

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Grete Hermann (2 March 1901 – 15 April 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of the no hidden variables proof by John von Neumann. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grete Hermann is the 628th most popular mathematician (down from 609th in 2019), the 3,900th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,947th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Grete Hermann ranks 628 out of 1,004. Before her are Heinrich Martin Weber, René de Saussure, Alfred Pringsheim, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Serge Lang, and Willem 's Gravesande. After her are Dmitri Egorov, Jakob Hermann, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Alfréd Haar, Al-Qalqashandi, and Douglas Hartree.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Grete Hermann ranks 190. Before her are Clyde Geronimi, Francisco Guilledo, Claude Aveline, Karl Arnold, Sekiryo Kaneda, and Peter van de Kamp. After her are Jan de Quay, Michael Oakeshott, Erich Ollenhauer, Vilma Bánky, Florence Green, and Jean Mermoz. Among people deceased in 1984, Grete Hermann ranks 143. Before her are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Henri Fabre, Ethel Merman, Giuseppe Tucci, Campanal I, and Toivo Loukola. After her are Ansel Adams, Wolfgang Staudte, Ólafur Jóhannesson, Hovhannes Shiraz, Fulvio Bernardini, and Alexander Moyzes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Grete Hermann ranks 3,902 out of 7,253. Before her are Uwe Bein (1960), George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1688), Rolf Hoppe (1930), Paul Mebus (1920), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), and Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (1547). After her are André Schürrle (1990), Dirk Nowitzki (1978), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846), Johanna Klier (1952), Sophie Menter (1846), and Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Grete Hermann ranks 74. Before her are Max August Zorn (1906), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), Max Noether (1921), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Martin Ohm (1792), and Heinrich Martin Weber (1842). After her are Ludwig Bieberbach (1886), Michael Artin (1934), Johann Schreck (1576), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), and Emil Julius Gumbel (1891).

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