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Jürgen Ehlers

1929 - 2008

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Jürgen Ehlers (German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈʔeːlɐs]; 29 December 1929 – 20 May 2008) was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity research group at Hamburg University, he held various posts as a lecturer and, later, as a professor before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director. In 1995, he became the founding director of the newly created Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. Ehlers' research focused on the foundations of general relativity as well as on the theory's applications to astrophysics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jürgen Ehlers is the 462nd most popular physicist (up from 529th in 2019), the 2,771st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,576th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 462 out of 851. Before him are Rudolf Peierls, Erich Hückel, Marie Alfred Cornu, Johanna Budwig, Hendrik Casimir, and Clarence Zener. After him are Carlo Matteucci, Walter Heitler, Berta Karlik, Rashid Sunyaev, Gabriele Veneziano, and Sameera Moussa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 193. Before him are Sixten Jernberg, Elizabeth Roemer, Anne Meara, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Leila Abashidze, and Elio Petri. After him are Charles Tilly, Rafael Eitan, Amitai Etzioni, Gastone Moschin, Claude Goretta, and Kjell Askildsen. Among people deceased in 2008, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 127. Before him are Ove Andersson, Fred Sinowatz, Joseph M. Juran, Lazare Ponticelli, Khiuaz Dospanova, and Marie Smith Jones. After him are Joan Segarra, Charles Tilly, David Ausubel, Mitch Mitchell, Gerard Damiano, and Donald E. Westlake.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 2,772 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Baum (1911), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Jawed Karim (1979), Axel Rudi Pell (1960), Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519), and Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602). After him are Peter Schreier (1935), Jörg Immendorff (1945), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), Cornelia Funke (1958), Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779), and Oskar von Hutier (1857).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Jürgen Ehlers ranks 66. Before him are Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Ernst Chladni (1756), Walther Meissner (1882), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Erich Hückel (1896), and Johanna Budwig (1908). After him are Walter Heitler (1904), Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Heinrich Rubens (1865), and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826).

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