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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 496,697 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). C. P. Snow is the 547th most popular physicist (up from 581st in 2019), the 2,616th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,071st in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of C. P. Snows by language

Over the past year C. P. Snow has had the most page views in the with 47,734 views, followed by Russian (8,798), and Bulgarian (4,234). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Min Nan (63.97%), Basque (47.51%), and Egyptian Arabic (24.22%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, C. P. Snow ranks 547 out of 851. Before him are John Sealy Townsend, Alfred Perot, Artem Alikhanian, Heinz von Foerster, Norman Holter, and Lev Artsimovich. After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Theodore Lyman IV, David Deutsch, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georg Hermann Quincke, and Albert Betz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, C. P. Snow ranks 194. Before him are Carlos Riolfo, Al Taliaferro, Mantovani, Lillian Hellman, Karol Borsuk, and Sanford Meisner. After him are Étienne Mattler, Siaka Stevens, Harold Arlen, Mary Renault, Mario Varglien, and Joel McCrea. Among people deceased in 1980, C. P. Snow ranks 163. Before him are André Parrot, Arthur Melvin Okun, Farrokhroo Parsa, Jean Robic, Yakov Malik, and Mantovani. After him are Nihat Erim, José de Anchieta Fontana, Terence Fisher, Pyotr Masherov, Rafael Paasio, and Boris Delaunay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, C. P. Snow ranks 2,616 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Pottinger (1789), Ashley Cole (1980), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), Austin Osman Spare (1886), Dominic West (1969), and Thomas Arnold (1795). After him are Bill Ivy (1942), Quentin Blake (1932), Kit Harington (1986), Peggy Ashcroft (1907), Billy Meredith (1874), and William Robertson Smith (1846).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, C. P. Snow ranks 58. Before him are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After him are Paul Davies (1946), Joseph Larmor (1857), James David Forbes (1809), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), John Robison (1739), and John D. Barrow (1952).

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