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Brandon Carter

1942 - Today

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Brandon Carter, (born 1942) is an Australian theoretical physicist who explores the properties of black holes, and was the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brandon Carter has received more than 131,352 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Brandon Carter is the 663rd most popular physicist (down from 570th in 2019), the 3,923rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,006th in 2019) and the 77th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 130k

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  • 44.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Brandon Carter ranks 663 out of 717. Before him are George F. R. Ellis, Valentine Telegdi, Arthur Schuster, Orest Khvolson, Max Tegmark, and Stanley Mandelstam. After him are Antonius van den Broek, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Vilho Väisälä, Julian Barbour, Ash Carter, and Egon Orowan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Brandon Carter ranks 483. Before him are Norman Greenbaum, Mario Chaldú, Marianna Hill, Jimmy Miller, Pavel Sadyrin, and Bernard Darniche. After him are Patricia Bath, Bernard Bosquier, Lorenzo Piretto, Giovanni Lodetti, John E. Blaha, and Allan Clarke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brandon Carter ranks 3,923 out of 7,765. Before him are Simon Gallup (1960), James Wilson (1805), Charles Robert Cockerell (1788), Karen Gillan (1987), Jimmy Hogan (1882), and Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768). After him are George Grote (1794), Charles Winslow (1888), Jonathan Stroud (1970), John Ogdon (1937), Virginia McKenna (1931), and Frank Lampard (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Brandon Carter ranks 77. Before him are Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Polkinghorne (1930), John Hopkinson (1849), Alfred Ewing (1855), Peter Mark Roget (1779), and John Aitken (1839). After him are Julian Barbour (1937), Bernard Lovell (1913), Ronald Drever (1931), John Pendry (1943), Raymond Gosling (1926), and C. V. Boys (1855).

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