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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 300,499 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Adam Riess is the 312th most popular astronomer (down from 301st in 2019), the 4,512th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,557th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 300k

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  • 58.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adam Riess ranks 312 out of 644. Before him are Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, Richard Christopher Carrington, Otto August Rosenberger, Franz Kaiser, Karl Christian Bruhns, and Pierre Charles Le Monnier. After him are Grigory Neujmin, Maurice Loewy, Lewis Boss, Louis Boyer, Georges Rayet, and Sylvain Arend.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Adam Riess ranks 120. Before him are Andrew Cunanan, Sayako Kuroda, Sean Combs, Muhammad V of Kelantan, Richard Witschge, and Billy Herrington. After him are Stéphane Chapuisat, Ivica Vastić, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Paul Adelstein, Beau Biden, and Alexander Schallenberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adam Riess ranks 4,512 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Kantner (1941), Eric Betzig (1960), Chris McCandless (1968), Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Link Wray (1929), and Moe Tucker (1944). After him are Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), Antonin Scalia (1936), William Guarnere (1923), Sara Teasdale (1884), Keenan Wynn (1916), and Zeppo Marx (1901).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Adam Riess ranks 56. Before him are Halton Arp (1927), Allan Sandage (1926), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), and Antonia Maury (1866). After him are Lewis Boss (1846), Alvan Clark (1804), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), and James W. Christy (1938).

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