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Paul Peter Ewald

1888 - 1985

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Paul Peter Ewald, FRS (January 23, 1888 – August 22, 1985) was a German crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Peter Ewald is the 683rd most popular physicist (down from 662nd in 2019), the 4,812th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,650th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 683 out of 851Before him are Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, Ralph Kronig, Hertha Sponer, Gregory Breit, and Alfred Kleiner. After him are Aleksandr Andronov, Bert Bolin, Sulamith Goldhaber, Edwin H. Land, John Iliopoulos, and Nicholas Kurti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 212Before him are Edward Cook, Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Kaarlo Koskelo, Harry Beaumont, Alexei Mateevici, and Guido Romano. After him are Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Rexhep Mitrovica, Zia ol Din Tabatabaee, Henri Bosco, Ferdinand Bie, and Harry Crerar. Among people deceased in 1985, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 201Before him are Ilka Gedő, Georges Verriest, Efrem Zimbalist, Harry Hopman, Jack Medica, and Josef Smistik. After him are Nicolas Hoydonckx, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sam Spiegel, Matt Monro, Edgar Reinhardt, and Roger Maris.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 4,815 out of 7,253Before him are Hartwig Gauder (1954), Ulrich Wehling (1952), Hermann Josef Abs (1901), René Kollo (1937), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), and Ulf Timmermann (1962). After him are Christiane Nord (1943), Rudolf Harbig (1913), Franz Dienert (1900), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Otto Bütschli (1848), and Karl Knies (1821).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Paul Peter Ewald ranks 90Before him are Alfred Landé (1888), Walter Kaufmann (1871), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Walther Müller (1905), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), and Ralph Kronig (1904). After him are Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Burkhard Heim (1925), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Kurths (1953), Ernst Ising (1900), and Rudolf Haag (1922).