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Ursula Franklin

1921 - 2016

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Ursula Martius Franklin (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks; and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 1986 and 2012. Franklin was a practising Quaker and actively worked on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ursula Franklin is the 556th most popular physicist (up from 678th in 2019), the 3,735th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,764th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ursula Franklin ranks 556 out of 851. Before her are Woldemar Voigt, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Gene Amdahl, Robert H. Dicke, Philip Morrison, and Richard Mollier. After her are Knut Ångström, Giuseppe Occhialini, William Astbury, Samuel T. Cohen, Wander Johannes de Haas, and Ernest Marsden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ursula Franklin ranks 230. Before her are Walter Laqueur, Milorad Pavić, Brian Keith, Imre Kovács, Willem Frederik Hermans, and Sune Andersson. After her are Jean Robic, Carmen Laforet, Kathleen Antonelli, Harry Schell, Joseph A. Walker, and Simin Daneshvar. Among people deceased in 2016, Ursula Franklin ranks 247. Before her are Jiří Tichý, Doris Roberts, Harald Grønningen, Marc Riboud, Pierre Étaix, and Brigitte Hamann. After her are Banharn Silpa-archa, Pierre Barouh, Juan Mujica, Aurèle Nicolet, A. B. Bardhan, and Luis María Echeberría.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ursula Franklin ranks 3,737 out of 7,253. Before her are Hans Clarin (1929), Paul Leni (1885), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833), Fritz Reuter (1810), and Felix Draeseke (1835). After her are Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), Angela Voigt (1951), Liane Augustin (1927), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), Roland Matthes (1950), and Christian Schad (1894).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Ursula Franklin ranks 79. Before her are Emil Warburg (1846), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), August Beer (1825), Pief Panofsky (1919), and Woldemar Voigt (1850). After her are Georg Adolf Erman (1806), Otto Lehmann (1855), Gustav Mie (1868), Albert Betz (1885), Alfred Landé (1888), and Walter Kaufmann (1871).

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