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Otto Stern

1888 - 1969

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Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895). Otto Stern (German: [ˈɔto ˈʃtɛʁn] ; 17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German-American physicist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945. In 1943, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Stern is the 60th most popular physicist (up from 62nd in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Physicist.

Otto stern was a German astronomer who was the first to observe the sunspots in 1847.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Otto Stern ranks 60 out of 851. Before him are Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, and Henry Cavendish. After him are Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Max Born, and Charles Glover Barkla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Otto Stern ranks 6. Before him are T. S. Eliot, Heinz Guderian, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Fernando Pessoa, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.. After him are T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, José Raúl Capablanca, Roland Garros, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Among people deceased in 1969, Otto Stern ranks 8. Before him are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Karl Jaspers, Theodor W. Adorno, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.. After him are Judy Garland, Walter Gropius, Franz von Papen, Zakir Husain, Sharon Tate, and C. F. Powell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Stern ranks 22 out of 1,694. Before him are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Fritz Haber (1868), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Eric of Pomerania (1381). After him are Wernher von Braun (1912), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), and Fedor von Bock (1880).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Otto Stern ranks 5. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686). After him are Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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