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Rudolf Haag

1922 - 2016

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Rudolf Haag (17 August 1922 – 5 January 2016) was a German theoretical physicist, who mainly dealt with fundamental questions of quantum field theory. He was one of the founders of the modern formulation of quantum field theory and he identified the formal structure in terms of the principle of locality and local observables. He also made important advances in the foundations of quantum statistical mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Haag is the 725th most popular physicist (up from 728th in 2019), the 5,072nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,088th in 2019) and the 96th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Haag ranks 725 out of 851. Before him are Alexei Starobinsky, Stuart Hameroff, Raymond Gosling, Bill Nye, Ernst Ising, and Charles Stark Draper. After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Nicholas Metropolis, Gerald Guralnik, Karl Taylor Compton, Walter Gordon, and Arthur Schuster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Rudolf Haag ranks 356. Before him are Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Hannelore Schroth, Olga Guillot, Guy Madison, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, and Marcel Mouloudji. After him are Ebbe Parsner, Nancy Walker, Rudolf Illovszky, Börje Tapper, Neal Hefti, and Fritz Riess. Among people deceased in 2016, Rudolf Haag ranks 427. Before him are Suat Mamat, Anton Yelchin, Fidel Uriarte, Hugh O'Brian, Francisco Flores Pérez, and Fernando Cardenal. After him are José Luis Artetxe, David Margulies, Ronit Elkabetz, Anatoly Roshchin, Donald E. Williams, and Jacques Rouffio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Haag ranks 5,075 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Ernst Ising (1900), Michael Bella (1945), Elmar Wepper (1944), Bernd Franke (1948), and Kurt Hoffmann (1910). After him are Gunhild Hoffmeister (1944), Björn Engholm (1939), Halil Altıntop (1982), Fredric Wertham (1895), Hans Schlegel (1951), and Thomas Reiter (1958).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Haag ranks 96. Before him are Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769), Burkhard Heim (1925), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Jürgen Kurths (1953), and Ernst Ising (1900). After him are Walter Gordon (1893), Arthur Schuster (1851), Gregor Wentzel (1898), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Hans Reissner (1874), and Rolf Landauer (1927).

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