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Brian Greene

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Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded 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 3,313,832 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Brian Greene is the 620th most popular physicist (down from 535th in 2019), the 6,057th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,880th in 2019) and the 129th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Brian Greene ranks 620 out of 851. Before him are Gustav Mie, Aleksandr Stoletov, Harold Agnew, Mario Livio, Grote Reber, and Walther Müller. After him are John Lennard-Jones, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sumio Iijima, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Norris Bradbury, and Michael Green.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Brian Greene ranks 233. Before him are Francesco Quinn, John Barnes, Eva Cassidy, Anders Frisk, Petra De Sutter, and Vladimir Mashkov. After him are Élisabeth Baume-Schneider, Dražen Ladić, Laurene Powell Jobs, Claudio Chiappucci, Jason Connery, and Rupert Graves.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brian Greene ranks 6,057 out of 20,380. Before him are David A. Huffman (1925), Larry Brown (1940), Delia Owens (1949), Mike Todd (1909), Carol Channing (1921), and Wynton Kelly (1931). After him are Shannon Elizabeth (1973), Kenny Dorham (1924), Estelle Taylor (1894), Denver Pyle (1920), Margaret Avery (1944), and Enoch L. Johnson (1883).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Brian Greene ranks 129. Before him are Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), Harry Daghlian (1921), Harold Brown (1927), Harold Agnew (1921), and Grote Reber (1911). After him are Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Victor J. Stenger (1935).

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