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Julius Wess

1934 - 2007

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Julius Erich Wess (5 December 1934 – 8 August 2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry and conformal field theory. He was also a recipient of the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Heineman Prize, and of several honorary doctorates. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Julius Wess is the 639th most popular physicist (up from 650th in 2024), the 864th most popular biography from Austria (down from 860th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julius Wess ranks 639 out of 851. Before her are Yvette Cauchois, Abraham Pais, James Hansen, Gordon Gould, Isaak Kikoin, and Lee Smolin. After her are Ferdinand Monoyer, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Harold Brown, Jan Burgers, Sidney Coleman, and Marcia Neugebauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Julius Wess ranks 348. Before her are Lasse Mårtenson, Tevfik Kış, Mario David, Helga Haase, Stanley G. Payne, and Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem. After her are Tomás Eloy Martínez, Giorgio Bassi, Vladislao Cap, Billy Paul, Jaegwon Kim, and Jef Planckaert. Among people deceased in 2007, Julius Wess ranks 258. Before her are Chrisye, Liviu Librescu, Egon Bondy, Helen Walton, Maurice Boitel, and Klausjürgen Wussow. After her are Ellen Preis, Ove Grahn, Huang Ju, Karen Spärck Jones, Sidney Coleman, and Bohdan Paczyński.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Julius Wess ranks 864 out of 1,424. Before her are Bruno de Finetti (1906), Joseph Othmar Rauscher (1797), Walter Schachner (1957), Willibald Schmaus (1912), Francis Lawrence (1971), and Klaus Dibiasi (1947). After her are Otto Kaiser (1901), Géza Csáth (1887), Heinrich Schiff (1951), Fritz Wotruba (1907), Joseph Woelfl (1773), and Josef Danhauser (1805).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Julius Wess ranks 18. Before her are Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Marietta Blau (1894), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), and Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795). After her are Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), Peter Zoller (1952), and Walter Munk (1917).

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