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Marian Smoluchowski

1872 - 1917

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Marian Smoluchowski (Polish: [ˈmarjan smɔluˈxɔfski]; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of Brownian motion and stochastic processes. Smoluchowski graduated in physics from the University of Vienna in 1895 before becoming a privatdozent at the University of Lemberg three years later. In 1913, he was appointed the chair of the Faculty of Experimental Physics at the Jagellonian University in Kraków. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marian Smoluchowski is the 479th most popular physicist (up from 484th in 2019), the 586th most popular biography from Austria (up from 602nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 479 out of 851. Before him are Emil Wiechert, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Carlo Rovelli, Heinrich Barkhausen, Pyotr Lebedev, and Andrei Linde. After him are Alan Sokal, Jacques Babinet, Max Abraham, Martin Knudsen, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, and Johann Heinrich Schulze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 87. Before him are Joseph Taylor Robinson, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Traian Vuia, Miguel Cabanellas, Heber Doust Curtis, and Akhmet Baitursynov. After him are Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Jaan Teemant, William Larned, Elia Dalla Costa, Heinrich Vogeler, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Among people deceased in 1917, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 58. Before him are Enric Prat de la Riba, Spyridon Samaras, Eric Campbell, Duke Philipp of Württemberg, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Émile Boirac. After him are Joseph B. Foraker, Teresa Carreño, Friedrich Robert Helmert, George Dewey, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, and Frank Muller.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 586 out of 1,424. Before him are Emil von Reznicek (1860), Ernst Fuchs (1930), Ferdinand Raimund (1790), Augustín Malár (1894), Ernest Gold (1921), and Alfred Körner (1926). After him are Philipp Frank (1884), Alfons Maria Stickler (1910), Magda Frank (1914), Princess Marie Louise of Hanover (1879), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), and Albert Apponyi (1846).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Marian Smoluchowski ranks 13. Before him are Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Berta Karlik (1904). After him are Heinz von Foerster (1911), Marietta Blau (1894), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), Julius Wess (1934), and Sulamith Goldhaber (1923).

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