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Charles W. Misner

1932 - 2023

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Charles William Misner (; June 13, 1932 – July 24, 2023) was an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties included general relativity and cosmology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles W. Misner has received more than 114,597 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charles W. Misner is the 582nd most popular physicist (up from 692nd in 2019), the 5,402nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,512th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 110k

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  • 49.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles W. Misner ranks 582 out of 851. Before him are Jean Becquerel, Ole Jacob Broch, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Dirk Coster, Giuseppe Occhialini, and Carlo Alberto Castigliano. After him are José Celestino Mutis, Yakov Frenkel, Franco Rasetti, William D. Coolidge, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Charles W. Misner ranks 270. Before him are Albert Collins, Dino Bruni, Franca Raimondi, Vladimir Yengibaryan, László Sárosi, and John Drew Barrymore. After him are Robert Rozhdestvensky, Paulinho de Almeida, Yash Chopra, Jerry Unser Jr., Medea Abrahamyan, and Kalyan Singh. Among people deceased in 2023, Charles W. Misner ranks 361. Before him are Zdeněk Mácal, Fay Weldon, Gordon Lightfoot, Juan Carlos Sarnari, Francis Lee, and Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg. After him are Yacouba Sawadogo, Annie Wersching, Maurizio Costanzo, Richard Moll, Simone Segouin, and Janusz Gortat.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles W. Misner ranks 5,402 out of 20,380. Before him are Vivien Thomas (1910), Robert Chartoff (1933), Paula Kelly (1942), John Drew Barrymore (1932), Spotted Elk (1826), and Jack Horner (1946). After him are Fred Gwynne (1926), Alger Hiss (1904), Seraphim Rose (1934), Ted Meredith (1891), Ajita Wilson (1950), and Albert Dekker (1905).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Charles W. Misner ranks 115. Before him are Eric Allin Cornell (1961), Norman Holter (1914), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), John G. Trump (1907), Frank J. Tipler (1947), and Kenneth Bainbridge (1904). After him are William D. Coolidge (1873), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Clyde Cowan (1919), Joan Feynman (1927), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), and Robert H. Dicke (1916).

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