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Walther Ritz

1878 - 1909

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Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Ritz is also known for the variational method named after him, the Ritz method. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Ritz is the 434th most popular physicist (up from 500th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 312th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Ritz ranks 434 out of 851. Before him are Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, Raoul Pictet, Alan Guth, Homi J. Bhabha, and Boris Podolsky. After him are William Stanley Jr., Walther Meissner, Evgeny Lifshitz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Anatoli Bugorski, and Robert J. Van de Graaff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Walther Ritz ranks 93. Before him are Myer Prinstein, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, C. Rajagopalachari, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Horacio Quiroga, and José Miaja. After him are John Rimmer, Jorge Ubico, Wallace Hartley, Mirra Alfassa, Maxie Long, and Stamen Grigorov. Among people deceased in 1909, Walther Ritz ranks 40. Before him are Afonso Pena, Caran d'Ache, Harry Seeley, Abdul Karim, Friedrich Martens, and Richard Bowdler Sharpe. After him are Joshua Slocum, Margarete Steiff, Karl Krumbacher, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Zhang Zhidong, and John Millington Synge.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walther Ritz ranks 241 out of 1,015. Before him are Robert Miles (1969), Ferdinand Kübler (1919), Raoul Pictet (1846), Jean Vanier (1928), Françoise-Louise de Warens (1699), and Umberto Agnelli (1934). After him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Stan Wawrinka (1985), Ubol Ratana (1951), Denis de Rougemont (1906), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), and Paul Wild (1925).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Walther Ritz ranks 10. Before him are Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), and Raoul Pictet (1846). After him are Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), Alfred Kleiner (1849), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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