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Alan Sokal

1955 - Today

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Alan David Sokal (; 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 in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He 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 538,607 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alan Sokal is the 455th most popular physicist (up from 489th in 2019), the 3,679th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,943rd in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alan Sokal ranks 455 out of 717. Before him are Hiroshi Amano, Walther Ritz, Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Giovanni Poleni, and Walter Heitler. After him are Stefan Hell, Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, Yuri Orlov, and Max Abraham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Alan Sokal ranks 138. Before him are Philippe Troussier, Sándor Puhl, Kim Hae-sook, Ildikó Enyedi, Mayumi Tanaka, and James Gosling. After him are Paul Greengrass, Mika Kaurismäki, Edwin Moses, Daniel Bertoni, Yasmina Khadra, and Brian Kobilka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Sokal ranks 3,679 out of 18,182. Before him are James Michael Tyler (1962), Jim Brown (1936), Virginia Madsen (1961), Mildred Natwick (1905), Robert Montgomery (1904), and Milo Ventimiglia (1977). After him are Melissa Sue Anderson (1962), Jay Cutler (1973), H.D. (1886), Renée Taylor (1933), Cherry Jones (1956), and Stewart Copeland (1952).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alan Sokal ranks 89. Before him are Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), Saul Perlmutter (1959), and Grote Reber (1911). After him are Alan Guth (1947), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), and Maurice Karnaugh (1924).

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