PHYSICIST

Clyde Cowan

1919 - 1974

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Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (December 6, 1919 – May 24, 1974) was an American physicist and the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clyde Cowan has received more than 84,363 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Clyde Cowan is the 594th most popular physicist (up from 680th in 2019), the 5,556th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,069th in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Physicist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clyde Cowan ranks 594 out of 851. Before him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sergey Kapitsa, John Robison, Prosper-René Blondlot, Georg Adolf Erman, and Wallace Clement Sabine. After him are Joan Feynman, Seth Neddermeyer, Bruno Zumino, Toshiko Yuasa, Heinrich Kayser, and Alfred Kleiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Clyde Cowan ranks 212. Before him are Maria Lassnig, Roman Vlad, Nilla Pizzi, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, Loki Schmidt, and Kim Ki-young. After him are Juan Carlos Muñoz, Béla Sárosi, Alan Young, Alan Brown, Bep Voskuijl, and Daniil Granin. Among people deceased in 1974, Clyde Cowan ranks 154. Before him are Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Jack Benny, Kick Smit, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, and Emil Väre. After him are Gheorghe Albu, Françoise Rosay, Arnaud Denjoy, Zaharia Stancu, Élie Lescot, and Ned Maddrell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clyde Cowan ranks 5,556 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Wallace (1918), Cesar Chavez (1927), Ida B. Wells (1862), Glenn Danzig (1955), J. D. Tippit (1924), and James Eckhouse (1955). After him are James Crafts (1839), Theodore Roszak (1933), William R. King (1786), Osceola (1804), Henry Clay Frick (1849), and Gary Peacock (1935).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clyde Cowan ranks 118. Before him are John G. Trump (1907), Frank J. Tipler (1947), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), Charles W. Misner (1932), William D. Coolidge (1873), and Wallace Clement Sabine (1868). After him are Joan Feynman (1927), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), and James Hansen (1941).

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