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Edward C. Stone

1936 - 2024

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Edward Carroll Stone (January 23, 1936 – June 9, 2024) was an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward C. Stone has received more than 142,470 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edward C. Stone is the 768th most popular physicist (down from 714th in 2019), the 10,179th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,493rd in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 140k

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  • 43.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edward C. Stone ranks 768 out of 851. Before him are Peter Zoller, Anatoly Logunov, Sidney Coleman, Robert Bacher, Jacques Friedel, and Shirley Ann Jackson. After him are Stanton T. Friedman, Erwin Hahn, Charles Sheffield, Daulat Singh Kothari, Hedwig Kohn, and Walter Munk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Edward C. Stone ranks 522. Before him are Andrzej Zieliński, Heinz Vollmar, Carey Bell, Herbert Boyer, Elizabeth Dole, and Paula Marosi. After him are Taisia Chenchik, Reginald Hill, Nicolas Alfonsi, Barbara Mikulski, Roger Miller, and Dave Allen. Among people deceased in 2024, Edward C. Stone ranks 237. Before him are Moacir Rodrigues Santos, Kenjiro Shinozuka, Comunardo Niccolai, Manfred Wolke, David Bordwell, and Gisela Birkemeyer. After him are James Sikking, Richard Tandy, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Willi Koslowski, Mahammed Dionne, and Achim Müller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward C. Stone ranks 10,179 out of 20,380. Before him are Didi Conn (1951), Johnny Otis (1921), Phillip Griffiths (1938), Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795), Lamar Odom (1979), and Jesse James (1969). After him are Abigail Breslin (1996), Adolph Dubs (1920), Betty Garrett (1919), Mary Philbin (1902), Paul Winchell (1922), and Candace Cameron Bure (1976).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edward C. Stone ranks 170. Before him are Frank Benford (1883), Conyers Herring (1914), Robert Marshak (1916), Sidney Coleman (1937), Robert Bacher (1905), and Shirley Ann Jackson (1946). After him are Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Erwin Hahn (1921), James M. Bardeen (1939), Bertrand Halperin (1941), James Hartle (1939), and Samuel King Allison (1900).

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