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Walther Meissner

1882 - 1974

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Fritz Walther Meißner (anglicized: Meissner) (16 December 1882 – 16 November 1974) was a German technical physicist. Meißner was born in Berlin to Waldemar Meißner and Johanna Greger. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin), his doctoral supervisor being Max Planck. He then entered the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Meissner is the 436th most popular physicist (up from 442nd in 2019), the 2,490th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,546th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Meissner ranks 436 out of 851. Before him are Raoul Pictet, Alan Guth, Homi J. Bhabha, Boris Podolsky, Walther Ritz, and William Stanley Jr.. After him are Evgeny Lifshitz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Anatoli Bugorski, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Vladimir Chelomey, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Walther Meissner ranks 112. Before him are Bronisław Huberman, Douglas Mawson, Raymonde de Laroche, Kâzım Karabekir, Christian Mortensen, and Kamo. After him are Anna Schäffer, Otto Ruge, Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Shigenori Tōgō, Inayat Khan, and Joseph Cardijn. Among people deceased in 1974, Walther Meissner ranks 80. Before him are Jean Daniélou, Charlotte Bühler, Otto Braun, Wolf Messing, Jean Wahl, and Stanisława Leszczyńska. After him are Bernard Voorhoof, Victor Boin, Roberto Assagioli, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Wang Ming, and Ed Sullivan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Meissner ranks 2,491 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (1802), Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (1486), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683), Gershon Kingsley (1922), and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743). After him are Karl Lamprecht (1856), Heinz Rühmann (1902), Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707), Franz Six (1909), Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481), and Alfred Pfaff (1926).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Meissner ranks 62. Before him are August Kundt (1839), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Paul Drude (1863), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), and Ernst Chladni (1756). After him are Rudolf Peierls (1907), Erich Hückel (1896), Johanna Budwig (1908), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Walter Heitler (1904), and Heinrich Barkhausen (1881).

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