1940 - Today
Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a British theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University. Josephson is the only Welshman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Josephson has received more than 235,989 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Brian Josephson is the 267th most popular physicist (up from 268th in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 800th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Physicist.
Brian Josephson is most famous for his discovery of the Josephson effect.
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Among physicists, Brian Josephson ranks 267 out of 721. Before him are Andrew Huxley, Carlo Rubbia, Zhores Alferov, Theodor W. Hänsch, Ernest Walton, and Makoto Kobayashi. After him are Serge Haroche, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Charles Wheatstone, Pierre Louis Dulong, Thomas Johann Seebeck, and Klaus von Klitzing.
1917 - 2012
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 261
1934 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 262
1930 - 2019
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 263
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 264
1903 - 1995
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 265
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 266
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 267
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 268
1912 - 2007
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 269
1802 - 1875
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 270
1785 - 1838
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 271
1770 - 1831
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 272
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 273
Among people born in 1940, Brian Josephson ranks 84. Before him are Joachim Frank, Fatema Mernissi, Marlène Jobert, Dionne Warwick, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, and Gojko Mitić. After him are Vittorio Storaro, Jean-Luc Nancy, Arieh Warshel, Katharine Ross, Sepp Piontek, and Rudi Dutschke.
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 78
1940 - 2015
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 79
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 80
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 81
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 83
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 85
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 86
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 87
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 88
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 89
1940 - 1979
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 90
Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 896 out of 6,924. Before him are Peter Green (1946), Charles Lightoller (1874), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Rob Halford (1951), Margaret of York (1446), and William Carey (1761). After him are Ian McDiarmid (1944), Slash (1965), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), Kiefer Sutherland (1966), Brian Cox (1946), and Ginger Baker (1939).
1946 - 2020
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 890
1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 891
1806 - 1859
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 892
1951 - Present
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 893
1446 - 1503
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 894
1761 - 1834
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 895
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 896
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 897
1965 - Present
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 898
1905 - 1919
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 899
1966 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 900
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 901
1939 - 2019
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 902
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 38. Before him are Daniel Rutherford (1749), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Patrick Blackett (1897), John Kendrew (1917), Peter Mansfield (1933), and Andrew Huxley (1917). After him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), Stephen Hales (1677), William Whewell (1794), John Stewart Bell (1928), James Jeans (1877), and J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943).
1749 - 1819
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 32
1905 - 1996
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 33
1897 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 34
1917 - 1997
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 35
1933 - 2017
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 36
1917 - 2012
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 37
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 38
1802 - 1875
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 39
1677 - 1761
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 40
1794 - 1866
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 41
1928 - 1990
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 42
1877 - 1946
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 43
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 44