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Brian Schmidt

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Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Schmidt has received more than 482,539 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Brian Schmidt is the 442nd most popular astronomer (down from 389th in 2019), the 6,738th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,144th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 5.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Brian Schmidt ranks 442 out of 644. Before him are William Frederick Denning, Dilhan Eryurt, Odette Bancilhon, Jill Tarter, Gottfried Kirch, and Warren De la Rue. After him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Zinaida Aksentyeva, Henry L. Giclas, Willem Jacob Luyten, Kees de Jager, and Edward Pigott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Brian Schmidt ranks 189. Before him are Paweł Mąciwoda, Simone Moro, Carles Busquets, Néstor Carbonell, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Kazuya Nakai. After him are Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Jenny Shimizu, Joe Rogan, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Kotono Mitsuishi, and Richard Bona.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brian Schmidt ranks 6,738 out of 20,380. Before him are Kvitka Cisyk (1953), Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940), Jill Tarter (1944), Harley Race (1943), Noah Baumbach (1969), and Laurance Rockefeller (1910). After him are Nick Adams (1931), Bill Walton (1952), José Graziano da Silva (1949), William M. Evarts (1818), Samuel Dexter (1761), and Jenny Shimizu (1967).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Brian Schmidt ranks 81. Before him are Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Harold D. Babcock (1882), Joel Stebbins (1878), George Herbig (1920), and Jill Tarter (1944). After him are Henry L. Giclas (1910), Horace W. Babcock (1912), Benjamin Banneker (1731), Charles W. Juels (1944), Frank Schlesinger (1871), and Carolyn Porco (1953).

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