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Ben Roy Mottelson

1926 - 2022

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Ben Roy Mottelson (9 July 1926 – 13 May 2022) was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Roy Mottelson has received more than 164,011 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ben Roy Mottelson is the 110th most popular physicist (up from 149th in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from United States (up from 636th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Physicist.

Ben Roy Mottelson is most famous for his contributions to the field of astrophysics. He was one of the first scientists to propose that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. He also made significant contributions to understanding the structure of the sun and solar system.

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  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 110 out of 851. Before him are Willis Lamb, Owen Chamberlain, Roger Penrose, Alfred Kastler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and Heinrich Rohrer. After him are Hippolyte Fizeau, Peter Debye, Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph Henry, Walter Houser Brattain, and Arnold Sommerfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 19. Before him are René Goscinny, Klaus Kinski, Sathya Sai Baba, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, and Jerry Lewis. After him are Nuon Chea, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Hugh Hefner, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Paul Bocuse. Among people deceased in 2022, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 18. Before him are Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Leonid Kravchuk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Olivia Newton-John, Madeleine Albright, and Monica Vitti. After him are Vivienne Westwood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Robbie Coltrane, José Eduardo dos Santos, Francisco Gento, and Uwe Seeler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 395 out of 20,380. Before him are Sylvia Plath (1932), Kurt Cobain (1967), Brian De Palma (1940), Anthony Kiedis (1962), Martin Sheen (1940), and Jimmy Wales (1966). After him are Joseph Henry (1797), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), Barbara McClintock (1902), Dean Martin (1917), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), and Sarah Palin (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 12. Before him are Ernest Lawrence (1901), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), John Bardeen (1908), Clinton Davisson (1881), Willis Lamb (1913), and Owen Chamberlain (1920). After him are Joseph Henry (1797), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Kip Thorne (1940), and Arthur Compton (1892).

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