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Alan Sokal

1955 - Today

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Alan David Sokal ( SOH-kəl; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics. Sokal is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Sokal has received more than 576,026 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alan Sokal is the 514th most popular physicist (down from 455th in 2019), the 4,144th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,669th in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alan Sokal ranks 514 out of 851. Before him are Gustave Trouvé, Andrei Linde, Theodore Hall, Anatoly Alexandrov, William Edward Ayrton, and Lester Germer. After him are John Henry Schwarz, Heinrich Barkhausen, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Max Wien, Abraham Pais, and Konstantin Novoselov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Alan Sokal ranks 175. Before him are Steve Berry, Thierry Breton, Yasmina Khadra, Kate Mulgrew, Philippe Streiff, and Paul Greengrass. After him are Alberto Iglesias, Mike Porcaro, Lindsey Graham, Johnnie To, Philip H. Dybvig, and Azar Nafisi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Sokal ranks 4,144 out of 20,380. Before him are John Petrucci (1967), Andreas Katsulas (1946), Eugene Odum (1913), Edward R. Murrow (1908), Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), and Gregory Benford (1941). After him are Nick Cravat (1912), Milt Jackson (1923), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), Thomas Sowell (1930), and Kenny Roberts (1951).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alan Sokal ranks 104. Before him are Gordon Gould (1920), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Edwin H. Land (1909), Gene Amdahl (1922), Theodore Hall (1925), and Lester Germer (1896). After him are John Henry Schwarz (1941), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Edward Condon (1902), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), and Norman Holter (1914).

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