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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 168,594 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ali Javan is the 609th most popular physicist (down from 581st in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Iran (down from 305th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ali Javan ranks 609 out of 717. Before him are Evelyn Fox Keller, Adriaan Fokker, Theodore Lyman IV, Walther Müller, Paul Scherrer, and Franco Rasetti. After him are Tullio Regge, Ralph Kronig, Mario Livio, Harold Brown, Toshiko Yuasa, and Charles Stark Draper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ali Javan ranks 295. Before him are Anneliese Rothenberger, James Best, Andy Griffith, Bill Sharman, Bernard Agré, and Abdur Rahman Biswas. After him are René Depestre, Enzo Sacchi, A. N. R. Robinson, Bob Benny, Walter Sedlmayr, and Carlos Roberto Reina. Among people deceased in 2016, Ali Javan ranks 291. Before him are Rudy Van Gelder, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Fritz Stern, Hanoi Hannah, Anne Jackson, and William Trevor. After him are Pierre Tchernia, Ruth Leuwerik, Robert Fano, Lutz D. Schmadel, Jiří Tichý, and Rita Renoir.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali Javan ranks 328 out of 528. Before him are Haj Ali Razmara (1901), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Emam-Ali Habibi (1931), Shapur IV (null), Sayed Morad Khan (1800), and Nusrat Bhutto (1929). After him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940), Ali Mansur (1895), Sardar Azmoun (1995), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (1961), Hadi Khosroshahi (1939), and Hassan Habibi (1937).

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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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