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Peter Armbruster

1931 - 2024

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Peter Armbruster (25 July 1931 – 26 June 2024) was a German physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with co-discovering elements 107 (bohrium), 108 (hassium), 109 (meitnerium), 110 (darmstadtium), 111 (roentgenium), and 112 (copernicium) with research partner Gottfried Münzenberg. Armbruster studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Munich, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 under Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Technical University of Munich. His major research fields were fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Centre of Jülich (1965 to 1970). He was Senior Scientist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt, GSI, from 1971 to 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Armbruster is the 456th most popular chemist (up from 530th in 2019), the 3,813th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,099th in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Armbruster ranks 456 out of 602. Before her are Gaston Tissandier, John Tukey, Peter Atkins, Benjamin List, Johann Schweigger, and Nikolay Zinin. After her are Kathleen Lonsdale, Nikolay Beketov, Walter Noddack, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Alfred Stock, and Gerhard Schrader.

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Among people born in 1931, Peter Armbruster ranks 278. Before her are Alex Soler-Roig, Bridget Riley, Lowell Weicker, Walter Burkert, Moira Orfei, and Joseph Joffo. After her are André Noyelle, Donald Barthelme, Hennadiy Udovenko, Ivan Dziuba, Bruno Mattei, and Nicole Courcel. Among people deceased in 2024, Peter Armbruster ranks 259. Before her are Joe Engle, Rolf Wolfshohl, Imre Komora, Noriko Ohara, Aleksandr Baryshnikov, and Olga Fikotová. After her are Alberto Festa, Mario Boljat, Bora Đorđević, David Sanborn, Amaral, and Elias Khoury.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Armbruster ranks 3,815 out of 7,253. Before her are Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1823), Horst Blankenburg (1947), Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg (1575), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833). After her are Norbert Lammert (1948), Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1762), Peter Stein (1937), James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (1562), Thomas Doll (1966), and Kurt Moll (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Peter Armbruster ranks 81. Before her are Albert Niemann (1834), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Michael Grätzel (1944), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Benjamin List (1968), and Johann Schweigger (1779). After her are Walter Noddack (1893), Theodor Curtius (1857), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Alwin Mittasch (1869), and Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750).

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