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Arthur B. McDonald

1943 - Today

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Arthur Bruce McDonald, P.Eng (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur B. McDonald has received more than 410,713 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur B. McDonald is the 78th most popular astronomer (up from 107th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Canada (up from 58th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Astronomer.

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  • 410k

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  • 60.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Arthur B. McDonald ranks 78 out of 531. Before him are Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Max Wolf, Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Stephen Gray, and Petrus Plancius. After him are Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Karl Ludwig Harding, Lewis A. Swift, Walter Baade, Wilhelm Tempel, and Edward Emerson Barnard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Arthur B. McDonald ranks 79. Before him are Ulay, Mustafa Dzhemilev, George Benson, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Wolfgang Overath, and Yohji Yamamoto. After him are Lucio Dalla, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Chevy Chase, Ralph M. Steinman, Johann Deisenhofer, and Chantal Mouffe.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Arthur B. McDonald ranks 51 out of 1,350. Before him are Lois Maxwell (1927), Ryan Reynolds (1976), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Charles Taylor (1931), Elizabeth Arden (1878), and Geneviève Bujold (1942). After him are Drake (1986), Ralph M. Steinman (1943), James Randi (1928), Donald O. Hebb (1904), William Vickrey (1914), and Pamela Anderson (1967).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Canada

Among astronomers born in Canada, Arthur B. McDonald ranks 1. After him are Hubert Reeves (1932), James Craig Watson (1838), John Stanley Plaskett (1865), David H. Levy (1948), Wendy Freedman (1957), Sara Seager (1971), Brett J. Gladman (1966), and Dale Frail (1961).

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