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Hertha Sponer

1895 - 1968

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Hertha Sponer (1 September 1895 – 27 February 1968) was a German physicist and chemist who contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics and was the first woman on the physics faculty of Duke University. She was the older sister of philologist and resistance fighter Margot Sponer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hertha Sponer is the 680th most popular physicist (down from 651st in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 991st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hertha Sponer ranks 680 out of 851. Before her are Alvin M. Weinberg, Norris Bradbury, Edward Andrade, Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, and Ralph Kronig. After her are Gregory Breit, Alfred Kleiner, Paul Peter Ewald, Aleksandr Andronov, Bert Bolin, and Sulamith Goldhaber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Hertha Sponer ranks 242. Before her are Frank Foss, Eduard Bagritsky, Edmund Wilson, Melville J. Herskovits, Karel Koželuh, and Johann Nepomuk David. After her are Carlos Manuel Piedra, Alberta Hunter, Nygmet Nurmakov, Katsutoshi Naito, István Barta, and Joseph Banks Rhine. Among people deceased in 1968, Hertha Sponer ranks 209. Before her are León Felipe, Manuel Bandeira, Mike Spence, Antonio Pesenti, William Varley, and Alfredo Foglino. After her are Martin Noth, Ichiya Kumagae, Fedde Schurer, Adolf Möller, Albert Dekker, and Charles Henry Bartlett.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 1,032 out of 1,694. Before her are Leo Königsberger (1837), Ernestine Rose (1810), Stanisław Nagy (1921), Hans Sturm (1935), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), and Karolina Kózka (1898). After her are Danuta Szaflarska (1915), Jan Dobraczyński (1910), Lotte Jacobi (1896), Juliusz Machulski (1955), Adam Przeworski (1940), and Marie Juchacz (1879).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Hertha Sponer ranks 17. Before her are Leopold Infeld (1898), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Max Abraham (1875), and Eugen Goldstein (1860).

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