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Alvin M. Weinberg

1915 - 2006

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Alvin Martin Weinberg (; April 20, 1915 – October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alvin M. Weinberg has received more than 193,832 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alvin M. Weinberg is the 698th most popular physicist (down from 594th in 2019), the 7,663rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,993rd in 2019) and the 148th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 698 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Ewing, Yvette Cauchois, Leonid Sedov, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Humberto Fernández-Morán, and E. C. George Sudarshan. After him are Elda Emma Anderson, Helen Quinn, Gregor Wentzel, Stuart Hameroff, Marcia Neugebauer, and Aleksandr Andronov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 217. Before him are Ismat Chughtai, Argemiro, Felix Kaspar, Jóhann Hafstein, Alice Faye, and Lester del Rey. After him are Barnard Hughes, Ewan MacColl, Lars Ahlin, David Diamond, Jan Twardowski, and Nicholas Metropolis. Among people deceased in 2006, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 277. Before him are Kasey Rogers, Lyuben Berov, Kalervo Toivonen, Elton Dean, Lyubov Polishchuk, and Ruth Brown. After him are Duygu Asena, Barnard Hughes, Iris Marion Young, Reidar Liaklev, Volodymyr Dakhno, and Jan Twardowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 7,663 out of 20,380. Before him are Darlene Love (1941), Ken Curtis (1916), Ruth Brown (1928), Hayden Panettiere (1989), Lauren Lane (1961), and Tom Kenny (1962). After him are Jaron Lanier (1960), Eric Andre (1983), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Carrie Chapman Catt (1859), Morris Kline (1908), and Oliver Evans (1755).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alvin M. Weinberg ranks 148. Before him are John C. Slater (1900), Frederick Seitz (1911), Edith Clarke (1883), Robert R. Wilson (1914), Leona Woods (1919), and Leonard Mlodinow (1954). After him are Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Albert W. Hull (1880), and Nicholas Metropolis (1915).

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