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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 271,779 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cumrun Vafa is the 698th most popular physicist (up from 699th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Iran (down from 350th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Physicist.

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  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Cumrun Vafa ranks 698 out of 717. Before him are Charles W. Misner, Harriet Brooks, Peter Zoller, Stanton T. Friedman, Harvey Fletcher, and Isaak Kikoin. After him are Helen Quinn, Jürgen Kurths, Christian Møller, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Seymour Benzer, and Raja Ramanna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Cumrun Vafa ranks 347. Before him are Jocelyn Pook, Anett Pötzsch, Davor Jozić, Joachim Winkelhock, Andrea Anastasi, and Jorge Quiroga. After him are Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Avram Glazer, Pavel Grudinin, Karita Mattila, Arnaud Desplechin, and Moaz al-Khatib.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Cumrun Vafa ranks 358 out of 528. Before him are Yusuf Adil Shah (1459), Andy (1958), Shahram Nazeri (1950), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), and Shahrnush Parsipur (1946). After him are Harold Nicolson (1886), Afshin Ghotbi (1964), Guity Novin (1944), Leila Hatami (1972), Ali Mirzaei (1929), and Mina Ahadi (1956).

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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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