1940 - Today
Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh 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 first 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 265,922 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Josephson is the 271st most popular physicist (down from 267th in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 896th in 2019) and the 37th 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 271 out of 717. Before him are Jack Steinberger, Henry Way Kendall, Joseph Swan, Patrick Blackett, Douglas Osheroff, and Andre Geim. After him are John Tyndall, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Masatoshi Koshiba, Leo Esaki, Zhores Alferov, and Otto Robert Frisch.
1921 - 2020
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 265
1926 - 1999
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 266
1828 - 1914
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 267
1897 - 1974
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 268
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 269
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 270
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 271
1820 - 1893
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 272
1754 - 1785
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 273
1926 - 2020
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 274
1925 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 275
1930 - 2019
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 276
1904 - 1979
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 277
Among people born in 1940, Brian Josephson ranks 87. Before him are Joachim Frank, Astrud Gilberto, George Akerlof, Dionne Warwick, Lothar de Maizière, and Anthony Fauci. After him are Mamnoon Hussain, Roger Ailes, Nobuyoshi Araki, Arieh Warshel, Clive Sinclair, and Max Mosley.
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 81
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 83
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 85
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 86
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 87
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 88
1940 - 2017
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 89
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 90
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 91
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 92
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 93
Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 907 out of 7,765. Before him are Kristin Scott Thomas (1960), Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Joan Collins (1933), and Natasha Richardson (1963). After him are Samuel Crompton (1753), H. H. Asquith (1852), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), William Henry Perkin (1838), Dave Gahan (1962), and Antony Hewish (1924).
1960 - Present
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 901
1946 - 2011
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 902
1849 - 1936
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 903
1910 - 1981
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 904
1933 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 905
1963 - 2009
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 906
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 907
1753 - 1827
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 908
1852 - 1928
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 909
1806 - 1859
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 910
1838 - 1907
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 911
1962 - Present
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 912
1924 - 2021
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 913
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 37. Before him are Daniel Rutherford (1749), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), John Cockcroft (1897), Joseph Swan (1828), and Patrick Blackett (1897). After him are Freeman Dyson (1923), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), Stephen Hales (1677), John Stewart Bell (1928), and James Jeans (1877).
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 31
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 32
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 33
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 34
1828 - 1914
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 35
1897 - 1974
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 36
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 37
1923 - 2020
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 38
1933 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 39
1794 - 1866
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 40
1677 - 1761
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 41
1928 - 1990
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 42
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 43