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Peter Hirsch

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Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a British metallurgist who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Hirsch is the 169th most popular engineer (up from 372nd in 2019), the 3,089th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,986th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Peter Hirsch ranks 169 out of 389Before him are Yaakov Ziv, Essam Sharaf, Aurel Vlaicu, John Hughes, Hugo Eckener, and Antoine de Chézy. After him are Alexei Tupolev, Riccardo Morandi, Gustave Whitehead, Louis Charles Breguet, Hanns Hörbiger, and Alphonse Pénaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Peter Hirsch ranks 199Before him are Kalle Svensson, Johnny Horton, Roy Medvedev, Theodore Hall, Andrei Sinyavsky, and Solomon Perel. After him are Alexei Tupolev, Maureen Stapleton, Nina Lobkovskaya, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Zhores Medvedev, and Sergei Salnikov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Hirsch ranks 3,091 out of 7,253Before him are Klaus Tennstedt (1926), Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859), Siegfried Bing (1838), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665), and Mario Götze (1992). After him are John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1700), George Mosse (1918), Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), Henry Koster (1905), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Peter Hirsch ranks 24Before him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Walter Hohmann (1880), Anton Flettner (1885), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), and Hugo Eckener (1868). After him are Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Grashof (1826), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), and Paul Mauser (1838).