PHYSICIST

Ali Javan

1926 - 2016

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Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان, romanized: Ali Javān); December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr., and D. R. Herriott, was demonstrated in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali Javan has received more than 177,285 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ali Javan is the 646th most popular physicist (down from 609th in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from Iran (down from 328th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ali Javan ranks 646 out of 851. Before him are Isaak Khalatnikov, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph Kronig, Ferdinand Monoyer, Frederick Guthrie, and Ștefania Mărăcineanu. After him are William Higinbotham, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Julius Wess, Hertha Sponer, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, and César Lattes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ali Javan ranks 336. Before him are Walter Sedlmayr, Lou Donaldson, Myung Rye-hyun, Bob Falkenburg, George Robledo, and Betsy Jolas. After him are Jan Zwartkruis, Keith Michell, Leonie Rysanek, Zig Ziglar, Luigi De Magistris, and Dilhan Eryurt. Among people deceased in 2016, Ali Javan ranks 328. Before him are Peter Maxwell Davies, Amelia Bence, Norbert Schemansky, Giorgio Albertazzi, Michel Déon, and Phyllis Schlafly. After him are Adrienne Corri, Ronit Elkabetz, Ad-Diba, Lupita Tovar, Liz Smith, and Janet Reno.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali Javan ranks 385 out of 631. Before him are Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960), Hassan Habibi (1937), Emam-Ali Habibi (1931), Dariush (1951), Homayoun Ershadi (1947), and Golshifteh Farahani (1983). After him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Mehdi Taremi (1992), Ali Parvin (1946), Navid Negahban (1968), and Ali Hatami (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Iran

Among physicists born in Iran, Ali Javan ranks 2. Before him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (1958). After him are Cumrun Vafa (1960).

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