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Brian Greene

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Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 1990–1995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Greene has received more than 1,671,833 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Greene is the 535th most popular physicist (up from 587th in 2019), the 4,892nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,894th in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Brian Greene ranks 535 out of 717. Before him are Georg Hermann Quincke, Woldemar Voigt, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Augusto Righi, Antonio Pacinotti, and James David Forbes. After him are Knut Ångström, Alfred Kleiner, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Wallace Clement Sabine, and William Edward Ayrton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Brian Greene ranks 173. Before him are Júlio César, Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, Martín Vizcarra, Antoni Martí, Yoko Kanno, and Karl Markovics. After him are Shaun Toub, Li Ning, Jonathan Haidt, Mike Mangini, Miroslav Lajčák, and Alex Proyas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brian Greene ranks 4,892 out of 18,182. Before him are Tommy Johnson (1896), Taylor Lautner (1992), Rooney Mara (1985), William Masters (1915), Rachael Harris (1968), and Charles Martin Smith (1953). After him are Judge Reinhold (1957), Mary Beth Peil (1940), Taryn Power (1953), Barry Harris (1929), Tom Hayden (1939), and Wilson Bentley (1865).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Brian Greene ranks 106. Before him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Clarence Zener (1905), Lester Germer (1896), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Samuel T. Cohen (1921). After him are Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), William D. Coolidge (1873), Charles Kittel (1916), Robert Mills (1927), Bryce DeWitt (1923), and James Hansen (1941).

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