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Leopold Infeld

1898 - 1968

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Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold Infeld is the 333rd most popular physicist (up from 348th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Poland (up from 338th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leopold Infeld ranks 333 out of 851. Before him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Marguerite Perey, Paul-Jacques Curie, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Moshé Feldenkrais, and Louis Paul Cailletet. After him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Carl Wieman, Jan Ingenhousz, John B. Goodenough, Fritjof Capra, and Robert B. Laughlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Leopold Infeld ranks 62. Before him are Felix Kersten, Carl Clauberg, Peggy Guggenheim, Latife Uşşaki, Hastings Banda, and Günther Korten. After him are Ernő Gerő, Giuseppe Saragat, Henry Hathaway, Julius Schaub, Arletty, and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta. Among people deceased in 1968, Leopold Infeld ranks 47. Before him are Romano Guardini, Josef Harpe, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Nick Adams, Georgios Papandreou, and Charles Chaplin Jr.. After him are George Hackenschmidt, Hitoshi Imamura, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Tsuguharu Foujita, Fritz Bauer, and Boris Lyatoshinsky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leopold Infeld ranks 289 out of 1,694. Before him are Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Adam Czerniaków (1880), David Seymour (1911), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), and Victor Klemperer (1881). After him are Robert Wiene (1873), Edward Gierek (1913), Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), Gunderic (379), and Albert Barillé (1920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Leopold Infeld ranks 11. Before him are Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), and Hagen Kleinert (1941). After him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Max Abraham (1875), Eugen Goldstein (1860), and Hertha Sponer (1895).

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