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Philipp Frank

1884 - 1966

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Philipp Frank (Austrian German: [fraŋk]; March 20, 1884 – July 21, 1966) was an Austrian-American physicist, mathematician and philosopher of the early-to-mid 20th century. He was a logical positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Frank is the 480th most popular mathematician (down from 375th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from Austria (down from 509th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Philipp Frank ranks 480 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann Hankel, Robert Langlands, W. V. D. Hodge, Al-Samawal al-Maghribi, Karl Mollweide, and Kurt Hensel. After him are Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, Bruno Abakanowicz, James Waddell Alexander II, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Whitfield Diffie, and Guidobaldo del Monte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Philipp Frank ranks 92. Before him are Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, James Alberione, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Wilhelm Brückner, Johannes Popitz, and George Sarton. After him are Boris Asafyev, Enrico Dante, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, and Santiago Casares Quiroga. Among people deceased in 1966, Philipp Frank ranks 99. Before him are John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Vera Weizmann, Arthur Percival, Albrecht Brandi, Petar Radaković, and Vilis Lācis. After him are Charles Whitman, Victor Kravchenko, Elio Vittorini, Sutan Sjahrir, George Ohsawa, and Gaspar Cassadó.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Philipp Frank ranks 587 out of 1,424. Before him are Ernst Fuchs (1930), Ferdinand Raimund (1790), Augustín Malár (1894), Ernest Gold (1921), Alfred Körner (1926), and Marian Smoluchowski (1872). After him are Alfons Maria Stickler (1910), Magda Frank (1914), Princess Marie Louise of Hanover (1879), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Albert Apponyi (1846), and Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (1874).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Philipp Frank ranks 9. Before him are Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Hans Hahn (1879), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Emil Artin (1898), Karl Menger (1902), and Hermann Bondi (1919). After him are Simon von Stampfer (1790), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), Friedrich Waismann (1896), Helena Rasiowa (1917), and Leopold Vietoris (1891).

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