1949 - Today
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar (born 5 July 1949) is an Indian theoretical physicist who created Ashtekar variables and is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. Ashtekar has also written a number of descriptions of loop quantum gravity that are accessible to non-physicists. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abhay Ashtekar has received more than 200,591 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Abhay Ashtekar is the 737th most popular physicist (down from 691st in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from India (down from 687th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 737 out of 717. Before him are John Joly, Marcia Neugebauer, James Hartle, Daniel Kleppner, Jeffrey Goldstone, and Robert Serber. After him are Emil Wolf, Sverker Johansson, Albert-László Barabási, Bertrand Halperin, Seth Neddermeyer, and John Houghton.
1857 - 1933
HPI: 41.09
Rank: 731
1932 - Present
HPI: 40.87
Rank: 732
1939 - 2023
HPI: 40.86
Rank: 733
1932 - Present
HPI: 40.65
Rank: 734
1933 - Present
HPI: 40.57
Rank: 735
1909 - 1997
HPI: 40.34
Rank: 736
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 737
1922 - 2018
HPI: 39.86
Rank: 738
1961 - Present
HPI: 39.78
Rank: 739
1967 - Present
HPI: 39.75
Rank: 740
1941 - Present
HPI: 39.69
Rank: 741
1907 - 1988
HPI: 39.60
Rank: 742
1931 - 2020
HPI: 39.57
Rank: 743
Among people born in 1949, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 607. Before him are Dave Greenfield, Viktor Kupreichik, Anna-Maria Müller, Tom Watson, Daniel DiNardo, and Henryk Wieczorek. After him are Jean-Jacques Favier, Aleksandr Salnikov, Terry Zwigoff, Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye, Montxo Armendáriz, and Ann Reinking.
1949 - 2020
HPI: 40.36
Rank: 601
1949 - 2017
HPI: 40.31
Rank: 602
1949 - 2009
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 603
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 604
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.21
Rank: 605
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.19
Rank: 606
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 607
1949 - 2023
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 608
1949 - 2017
HPI: 40.09
Rank: 609
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.07
Rank: 610
1949 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 611
1949 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 612
1949 - 2020
HPI: 39.83
Rank: 613
Among people born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 767 out of 1,493. Before him are John Abraham (1972), Boman Irani (1959), Bano Qudsia (1928), M. Balamuralikrishna (1930), Maneka Gandhi (1956), and Narain Karthikeyan (1977). After him are Vikram Seth (1952), Smita Patil (1955), Mehdi Hassan (1927), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Yogi Adityanath (1972), and Arvind Kejriwal (1968).
1972 - Present
HPI: 40.42
Rank: 761
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.36
Rank: 762
1928 - 2017
HPI: 40.33
Rank: 763
1930 - 2016
HPI: 40.28
Rank: 764
1956 - Present
HPI: 40.21
Rank: 765
1977 - Present
HPI: 40.18
Rank: 766
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 767
1952 - Present
HPI: 40.15
Rank: 768
1955 - 1986
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 769
1927 - 2012
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 770
1860 - 1944
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 771
1972 - Present
HPI: 40.03
Rank: 772
1968 - Present
HPI: 40.01
Rank: 773
Among physicists born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 12. Before him are Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), and Narinder Singh Kapany (1926). After him are Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932) and Ashoke Sen (1956).
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 6
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 7
1893 - 1972
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 8
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 9
1925 - 2004
HPI: 42.88
Rank: 10
1926 - 2020
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 12
1932 - 2017
HPI: 38.87
Rank: 13
1956 - Present
HPI: 29.69
Rank: 14