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Richard Rado

1906 - 1989

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Richard Rado FRS (28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. He was Jewish and left Germany to escape Nazi persecution. He earned two PhDs: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge. He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to study at Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Rado is the 849th most popular mathematician (down from 805th in 2019), the 5,105th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,942nd in 2019) and the 97th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Rado ranks 849 out of 1,004. Before him are Grigore Moisil, Stanislav Smirnov, Erich Hecke, Laurent Lafforgue, Nikolai Bugaev, and Dmitri Anosov. After him are Øystein Ore, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Joseph Wedderburn, Solomon Marcus, Gustav de Vries, and Kātyāyana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Richard Rado ranks 355. Before him are Anšlavs Eglītis, Rafaela Aparicio, Grigore Moisil, Bruce Bennett, Andrei Abrikosov, and Diana Wynyard. After him are Klaus Egge, Jorge Icaza Coronel, Snorri Hjartarson, Cai Chusheng, Gerardo Romero, and Richard Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1989, Richard Rado ranks 254. Before him are John Ogdon, Franco Luambo, Erik Almgren, Édouard Candeveau, George Coulouris, and Hilda Strike. After him are Fred Agabashian, C. L. R. James, Scott O'Dell, Bas Paauwe, Pua Kealoha, and Hu Die.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Rado ranks 5,108 out of 7,253. Before him are Lothar Thoms (1956), Uli Stein (1954), Ilse Bing (1899), Friedhelm Funkel (1953), Julia Klöckner (1972), and Franz Pfnür (1908). After him are Oleh Kuznetsov (1963), Erik Ode (1910), Walter Gordon (1893), Maria Schrader (1965), Michael Glos (1944), and Arthur Schuster (1851).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Richard Rado ranks 97. Before him are Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Hans Rademacher (1892), Friedrich Engel (1861), Oskar Perron (1880), Erich Kähler (1906), and Wolfgang Krull (1899). After him are Walther von Dyck (1856), Richard Brauer (1901), Leopold Löwenheim (1878), Ruth Moufang (1905), Volker Strassen (1936), and Don Zagier (1951).

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