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Polykarp Kusch

1911 - 1993

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Polykarp Kusch (German: [ˈpoːliˌkaʁp ˈkuʃ]; January 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the electron magnetic moment was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of and innovations in quantum electrodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Polykarp Kusch is the 171st most popular physicist (up from 176th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 600th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Physicist.

Polykarp Kusch is most famous for his work in the field of color and color theory. His most famous work, "Die Grundlagen der Physikalischen Optik" (the fundamentals of physical optics), was published in 1866.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Polykarp Kusch ranks 171 out of 851. Before him are Gerd Binnig, Ernst Abbe, Paul Langevin, Hideki Yukawa, François Englert, and George E. Smith. After him are Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, James Jeans, Julius von Mayer, and Herbert Kroemer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Polykarp Kusch ranks 26. Before him are Robert Taylor, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, William Stuart-Houston, Melvin Calvin, Maurice Allais, and Jack Ruby. After him are Marshall McLuhan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Tennessee Williams, William Alfred Fowler, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Feodor Lynen. Among people deceased in 1993, Polykarp Kusch ranks 14. Before him are William Golding, Erich Hartmann, Frank Zappa, Turgut Özal, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona. After him are Inge Lehmann, Anthony Burgess, André the Giant, Robert W. Holley, Bobby Moore, and Wolfgang Paul.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Polykarp Kusch ranks 453 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Valentinian II (371), Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660), Traudl Junge (1920), Theodor Schwann (1810), and Peter Behrens (1868). After him are Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Werner Herzog (1942), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Polykarp Kusch ranks 27. Before him are Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Ernst Abbe (1840). After him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Hans Geiger (1882), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), and Max Delbrück (1906).

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