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Gustav Mie

1868 - 1957

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Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig Mie (German: [ˈɡʊs.taːf ˈmiːə]; 29 September 1868 – 13 February 1957) was a German physicist. His work included Mie scattering, the Mie potential, the Mie–Grüneisen equation of state and an early effort at classical unified field theories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Mie is the 600th most popular physicist (up from 614th in 2019), the 4,212th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,301st in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gustav Mie ranks 600 out of 851Before him are Evelyn Fox Keller, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Vladimir Veksler, Henry Augustus Rowland, Tullio Regge, and William Edward Ayrton. After him are Shoichi Sakata, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Anatoly Alexandrov, Pierre Weiss, Robert Mills, and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Gustav Mie ranks 158Before him are Edward S. Curtis, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Constance Markievicz, Heinrich Schenker, and Federico Tinoco Granados. After him are Leonardus Nardus, Frederick W. Lanchester, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Prosper Poullet, José Serrato, and Edgar Adams. Among people deceased in 1957, Gustav Mie ranks 153Before him are Heinrich Campendonk, Elia Abu Madi, Óscar Domínguez, Harrison Ford, William Cameron Menzies, and Walter Nausch. After him are Carl Bonde, Kulyash Baiseitova, Anna Haava, Carl Størmer, Kurt Pettersén, and Aleksey Remizov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Mie ranks 4,214 out of 7,253Before him are Eduard Künneke (1885), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Ellen Braumüller (1910), and Friedrich Dickel (1913). After him are Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Paul Pietsch (1911), Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (1480), Hermann, Prince of Wied (1814), Princess Frederica of Hanover (1848), and Helmut Wick (1915).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gustav Mie ranks 82Before him are August Beer (1825), Pief Panofsky (1919), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Ursula Franklin (1921), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), and Otto Lehmann (1855). After him are Albert Betz (1885), Alfred Landé (1888), Walter Kaufmann (1871), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Walther Müller (1905), and Georg Hermann Quincke (1834).