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César Lattes

1924 - 2005

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Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (11 July 1924 – 8 March 2005), also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of César Lattes has received more than 295,227 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). César Lattes is the 652nd most popular physicist (down from 645th in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 557th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, César Lattes ranks 652 out of 851. Before him are Ali Javan, William Higinbotham, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Julius Wess, Hertha Sponer, and Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger. After him are Michael Berry, Lee Smolin, Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, Orest Khvolson, and Adriaan Fokker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, César Lattes ranks 334. Before him are David Landes, Shirley Chisholm, Phyllis Schlafly, Robert Bolt, Lia van Leer, and Gunnar Johansson. After him are Boris Vasilyev, Carlos Humberto Romero, Lucy Salani, Antonio Creus, Natalia Bekhtereva, and Masha Bruskina. Among people deceased in 2005, César Lattes ranks 238. Before him are George Gerbner, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Shirley Chisholm, Klara Luchko, Brock Peters, and Ivan Kolev. After him are Ilse Werner, Eugénio de Andrade, Aulis Kallakorpi, Atef Sedky, Isabella Bashmakova, and Richard Burns.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, César Lattes ranks 549 out of 2,236. Before him are Lygia Bojunga Nunes (1932), Rickson Gracie (1959), Palhinha (1950), Nariz (1912), Clara Nunes (1942), and Nilo Murtinho Braga (1903). After him are Igor Cavalera (1970), José Reinaldo de Lima (1957), Glória Pires (1963), Henrique Mecking (1952), Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947), and Alex Ribeiro (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Brazil

Among physicists born in Brazil, César Lattes ranks 1. After him are Marcia Barbosa (1960).

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