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Brian Cox

1968 - Today

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Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Cox has received more than 238,469 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Brian Cox is the 775th most popular physicist (down from 748th in 2019), the 5,172nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,281st in 2019) and the 85th most popular British Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Brian Coxes by language

Over the past year Brian Cox has had the most page views in the with 32,138 views, followed by Spanish (27,720), and English (25,802). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (221.09%), Indonesian (186.48%), and Cornish (150.37%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Brian Cox ranks 775 out of 851. Before him are Stanton T. Friedman, Erwin Hahn, Charles Sheffield, Daulat Singh Kothari, Hedwig Kohn, and Walter Munk. After him are Jeffrey Goldstone, James M. Bardeen, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, John Houghton, Ronald Drever, and Bertrand Halperin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Brian Cox ranks 379. Before him are Ioan Lupescu, Lior Ashkenazi, Éric Vuillard, Necrobutcher, Arvind Kejriwal, and Joe Cornish. After him are Filipp Yankovsky, John DiMaggio, Hikmat Mirzayev, Hernán Medford, Svetlana Masterkova, and Kjetil Rekdal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Cox ranks 5,172 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles James Napier (1782), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), Alan Hollinghurst (1954), Lynn Fontanne (1887), Matthew Rhys (1974), and Joe Cornish (1968). After him are Stephen Merchant (1974), Alan Garner (1934), Judd Trump (1989), Donald Campbell (1921), John Barbour (1316), and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Brian Cox ranks 85. Before him are John Aitken (1839), Alan Cottrell (1919), Bernard Lovell (1913), Gilbert Walker (1868), Balfour Stewart (1828), and Charles Sheffield (1935). After him are Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Houghton (1931), Ronald Drever (1931), John Pendry (1943), Edward Andrade (1887), and Jess Wade (1988).

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