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Cumrun Vafa

1960 - Today

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Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, Persian pronunciation: [kɒːmˈrɒːn væˈfɒː]; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cumrun Vafa has received more than 295,088 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cumrun Vafa is the 792nd most popular physicist (down from 698th in 2019), the 448th most popular biography from Iran (down from 358th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Physicist.

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  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Cumrun Vafa ranks 792 out of 851. Before him are John Pendry, Robert L. Forward, Ayşe Erzan, Werner Israel, Léon Rosenfeld, and Emil Wolf. After him are Yash Pal, Egon Orowan, Sarah Frances Whiting, Abhay Ashtekar, Robert Detweiler, and Charlotte Froese Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Cumrun Vafa ranks 485. Before him are Adnan Terzić, Maria Schneider, Branford Marsalis, Thierry Vigneron, Shinji Hosokawa, and Ralph Sampson. After him are Luis Gabelo Conejo, Takashi Mizunuma, Branko Miljuš, Johnny Van Zant, Tim Mayotte, and Lev Manovich.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Cumrun Vafa ranks 448 out of 631. Before him are Alireza Jahanbakhsh (1993), Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (1960), Khodadad Azizi (1971), Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), and Shohreh (1959). After him are Quli Qutb Shah (1470), Kayhan Kalhor (1963), Parviz Davoodi (1952), Ali Mirzaei (1929), Rakhshān Banietemad (1954), and Iraj Danaeifard (1951).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Iran

Among physicists born in Iran, Cumrun Vafa ranks 3. Before him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (1958), and Ali Javan (1926).

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