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Jürgen Kurths

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Jürgen Kurths (born 11 March 1953 in Arendsee/Altmark) is a German physicist and mathematician. He is senior advisor in the research department Complexity Sciences of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Institute of Physics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and a 6th-century chair for Complex Systems Biology at the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology at Kings College, Aberdeen University (UK). His research is mainly concerned with nonlinear physics and complex systems sciences and their applications to challenging problems in Earth system, physiology, systems biology and engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jürgen Kurths is the 710th most popular physicist (up from 762nd in 2019), the 5,012th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,337th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Physicist. Learn more about Jürgen Kurths's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jürgen Kurths ranks 710 out of 851. Before him are Sarah Frances Whiting, Dirk Coster, Ayşe Erzan, William D. Coolidge, Grigory Landsberg, and Andreas von Ettingshausen. After him are Antonius van den Broek, Franz Josef Gerstner, Harold Agnew, Leonard Mlodinow, Joseph Polchinski, and Charlotte Froese Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Jürgen Kurths ranks 382. Before him are Neven Mimica, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Walter Lübcke, Brian Kerr, Katarina Frostenson, and Eve Ensler. After him are Xabier Azkargorta, Adrie van Kraay, Gary Johnson, Sergei Starostin, Roberta Williams, and Ingo Hoffmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jürgen Kurths ranks 5,015 out of 7,253. Before him are Andy Bechtolsheim (1955), Siegbert Horn (1950), Joseph Rosemeyer (1872), Rüdiger Schnuphase (1954), Engelbert Kraus (1934), and Wilhelm Leichum (1911). After him are Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810), Wolfgang Behrendt (1936), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), Moon Ga-young (1996), Gustav Goßler (1879), and Dieter Hecking (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Jürgen Kurths ranks 94. Before him are Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Ralph Kronig (1904), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Burkhard Heim (1925), and Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796). After him are Ernst Ising (1900), Rudolf Haag (1922), Walter Gordon (1893), Arthur Schuster (1851), Gregor Wentzel (1898), and Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948).

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