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C. P. Snow

1905 - 1980

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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. P. Snow has received more than 500,705 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). C. P. Snow is the 581st most popular physicist (down from 532nd in 2019), the 3,079th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,581st in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 48.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, C. P. Snow ranks 581 out of 717. Before him are Victor J. Stenger, Burkhard Heim, Edith Clarke, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Artem Alikhanian, and Frank J. Tipler. After him are Gordon Gould, Isaak Khalatnikov, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Ted Fujita, Bill Nye, and John D. Barrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, C. P. Snow ranks 219. Before him are Franchot Tone, Hendrik Wade Bode, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Gustav Wiederkehr, Mario de las Casas, and Víctor Morales. After him are Fulvio Bernardini, Fausto dos Santos, Vera Panova, Araken Patusca, Zakaria Goneim, and Vladimír Holan. Among people deceased in 1980, C. P. Snow ranks 180. Before him are Sanjay Gandhi, Rafael Paasio, Petar Trifunović, Philip Guston, Wilhelmina Cooper, and Andrija Anković. After him are Jacob Talmon, Harri Larva, Vladimír Holan, Lado Gudiashvili, Zezé Procópio, and José de Anchieta Fontana.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, C. P. Snow ranks 3,079 out of 7,765. Before him are Martin Donnelly (1964), Andrew Marvell (1621), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), Anthony Hope (1863), John McDouall Stuart (1815), and Carey Mulligan (1985). After him are Robert Simson (1687), Peter Grant (1935), David Stirling (1915), Richard de Bury (1287), John McVie (1945), and John Hartley (1849).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, C. P. Snow ranks 66. Before him are Michael Berry (1941), Paul Davies (1946), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), James David Forbes (1809), William Edward Ayrton (1847), and Francis Hauksbee (1660). After him are John D. Barrow (1952), John Robison (1739), John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), and John Polkinghorne (1930).

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