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Bill Nye

1955 - Today

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William Sanford Nye (; born November 27, 1955) is an American science communicator, television presenter, and former mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the science education television show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1999) and as a science educator in pop culture. Born in Washington, D.C., Nye began his career as a mechanical engineer for Boeing in Seattle, where he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on 747 airplanes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Nye has received more than 12,940,334 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Bill Nye is the 711th most popular physicist (down from 586th in 2019), the 8,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,805th in 2019) and the 155th most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bill Nye ranks 711 out of 851. Before him are Vilho Väisälä, Stanley Mandelstam, Ernst Stueckelberg, Elliott H. Lieb, Albert W. Hull, and Nicholas Metropolis. After him are Michael Fisher, Juris Upatnieks, Raymond Gosling, Tom Kibble, Brandon Carter, and Lisa Randall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Bill Nye ranks 369. Before him are José Daniel Valencia, Jean Kambanda, Francesco Guidolin, Jean Lassalle, Glenne Headly, and Toshimitsu Motegi. After him are Jake Roberts, Zlatko Lagumdžija, Vijay Mallya, Sam Simon, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Helge Schneider.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Nye ranks 8,100 out of 20,380. Before him are Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Abraham Flexner (1866), Robert Rubin (1938), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Charles Cyphers (1939), and Todd Armstrong (1937). After him are Yvonne Rainer (1934), Martin Cruz Smith (1942), Elisabeth Moore (1876), Ty Hardin (1930), Carla Laemmle (1909), and The Fabulous Moolah (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Bill Nye ranks 155. Before him are Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Albert W. Hull (1880), and Nicholas Metropolis (1915). After him are Lisa Randall (1962), Arthur Wightman (1922), Howard P. Robertson (1903), Harvey Fletcher (1884), C. R. Hagen (1937), and Joseph Polchinski (1954).

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