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Adam Riess

1969 - Today

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Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Riess has received more than 274,655 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Adam Riess is the 301st most popular astronomer (up from 369th in 2019), the 4,569th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,607th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 60

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  • 11.48

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  • 3.57

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adam Riess ranks 301 out of 531. Before him are Maurice Loewy, Allan Sandage, Louis Boyer, Franz Kaiser, Christopher Hansteen, and Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov. After him are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Marguerite Laugier, Nathaniel Bliss, Richard Martin West, Norman Lockyer, and Giorgio Abetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Adam Riess ranks 116. Before him are Faustino Asprilla, Fernando Couto, Max Cavalera, Billy Herrington, Dana White, and Jonas Kaufmann. After him are Tommy Morrison, Leonid Stadnyk, Rory McCann, Brian Krause, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Cesar Millan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adam Riess ranks 4,569 out of 18,182. Before him are James Karen (1923), Willie Mays (1931), Julie Benz (1972), Estelle Harris (1928), William Cameron Menzies (1896), and Michael Paré (1958). After him are Isaiah Thomas (1989), Eric Dane (1972), Dorothy McGuire (1916), Shonda Rhimes (1970), Brandon Sanderson (1975), and Varian Fry (1907).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Adam Riess ranks 57. Before him are Charles T. Kowal (1940), Antonia Maury (1866), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Lewis Boss (1846), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and Allan Sandage (1926). After him are Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Alvan Clark (1804), Frank Muller (1862), and Eugene Parker (1927).

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