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Pief Panofsky

1919 - 2007

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Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (April 24, 1919 – September 24, 2007), was a German-American physicist who won many awards including the National Medal of Science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pief Panofsky is the 544th most popular physicist (up from 722nd in 2019), the 3,642nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,049th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pief Panofsky ranks 544 out of 851. Before him are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, William Robert Grove, Ira Sprague Bowen, Joseph Larmor, Vladimir Steklov, and Gerard K. O'Neill. After him are Grote Reber, Gilbert Walker, John Robison, Ludvig Faddeev, Gunnar Nordström, and Woldemar Voigt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Pief Panofsky ranks 177. Before him are Vikram Sarabhai, Dan O'Herlihy, Leona Woods, Angelo Felici, Gene Barry, and François Bordes. After him are Hans Hass, Rocky Graziano, Sam Wanamaker, Jack McGrath, Franco Rossi, and Jüri Järvet. Among people deceased in 2007, Pief Panofsky ranks 200. Before him are Hans Wegner, Al Oerter, Benjamin Libet, Jim Gray, Angelo Felici, and Mariano Gonzalvo. After him are Stephen Fumio Hamao, Toše Proeski, Michael Brecker, Luis Herrera Campins, Alice Coltrane, and Kirill Lavrov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Pief Panofsky ranks 3,644 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Pilar of Bavaria (1891), E. A. Dupont (1891), Percy Adlon (1935), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Wolf Hoffmann (1959), and Joseph Wendel (1901). After him are Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (1712), Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (1630), Bernhard Romberg (1767), Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (1804), Angilbert (740), and Duchess Marie of Württemberg (1799).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Pief Panofsky ranks 77. Before him are Heinrich Rubens (1865), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), and August Beer (1825). After him are Woldemar Voigt (1850), Ursula Franklin (1921), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), Otto Lehmann (1855), Gustav Mie (1868), and Albert Betz (1885).

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