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Pierre Victor Auger

1899 - 1993

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Pierre Victor Auger (French pronunciation: [oʒe]; 14 May 1899 – 24 December 1993) was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. He is famous for being one of the discoverers of the Auger effect, named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Victor Auger is the 506th most popular physicist (down from 465th in 2019), the 3,218th most popular biography from France (down from 2,874th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 506 out of 851. Before him are Robert Serber, Charles Galton Darwin, Alfred Ewing, Eugen Goldstein, Gaspard de Prony, and Giovanni Aldini. After him are Dmitri Ivanenko, Frederick Guthrie, Nicola Cabibbo, George Zweig, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, and G. M. B. Dobson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 152. Before him are Semyon Krivoshein, Leonid Leonov, Fritz von Opel, Sára Salkaházi, Anita Berber, and Georg Leibbrandt. After him are Harold Abrahams, Francis Ponge, Masujiro Nishida, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Chief Dan George, and Ramón Muttis. Among people deceased in 1993, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 120. Before him are Henry Hazlitt, Yuri Bezmenov, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Buddhadasa, Freya Stark, and Deke Slayton. After him are Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Jan Gies, Cyril Cusack, GG Allin, Oliver Tambo, and Brandon Teena.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 3,218 out of 6,770. Before him are Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Simon Marmion (1425), Charles Rollin (1661), Freya Stark (1893), Henri Brocard (1845), and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719). After him are Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), René Daumal (1908), Auguste Vaillant (1861), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), François Marie Daudin (1776), and Étienne Mattler (1905).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Victor Auger ranks 56. Before him are Jules Jamin (1818), Henri Tresca (1814), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jacques Babinet (1794), and Gaspard de Prony (1755). After him are Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Claude Pouillet (1790), and Marcel Brillouin (1854).

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