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David Lee

1931 - Today

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David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Lee has received more than 123,434 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). David Lee is the 211th most popular physicist (down from 201st in 2019), the 815th most popular biography from United States (up from 928th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Physicist.

David Lee Roth is most famous for being the lead singer of the rock band Van Halen.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 18.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David Lee ranks 211 out of 851. Before him are Alain Aspect, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Robert Hofstadter, Richard E. Taylor, James Cronin, and David J. Thouless. After him are Arthur Ashkin, Yoichiro Nambu, Abdus Salam, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Leon Cooper, and Clifford Shull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, David Lee ranks 44. Before him are Riccardo Giacconi, Sri Chinmoy, William Shatner, Jim Jones, James Cronin, and Nawal El Saadawi. After him are Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Rorty, Kakuichi Mimura, John le Carré, and Larry Hagman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Lee ranks 815 out of 20,380. Before him are Halle Berry (1966), Robert E. Howard (1906), George F. Kennan (1904), Gloria Swanson (1899), William Hurt (1950), and Kris Jenner (1955). After him are Nancy Sinatra (1940), Carl Barks (1901), William H. Macy (1950), Philip Glass (1937), Arthur Ashkin (1922), and William Howard Stein (1911).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, David Lee ranks 38. Before him are Steven Weinberg (1933), Michio Kaku (1947), David J. Wineland (1944), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Robert Hofstadter (1915), and James Cronin (1931). After him are Arthur Ashkin (1922), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Leon Cooper (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), and John L. Hall (1934).

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