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Douglas Hofstadter

1945 - Today

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Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Hofstadter has received more than 1,426,811 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Hofstadter is the 430th most popular physicist (down from 412th in 2019), the 2,924th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,062nd in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 430 out of 851. Before him are Saul Perlmutter, Ludvig Lorenz, Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, Robert J. Van de Graaff, and Philip Morrison. After him are Mildred Dresselhaus, Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, and Vladimir Fock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 193. Before him are Vinko Puljić, Don McLean, Everett McGill, Edmund M. Clarke, Pablo Forlán, and Sheila. After him are Aurore Clément, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Christophe, Dimitar Penev, Roger Chartier, and Michael J. Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 2,924 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Kathy Reichs (1948), William Peter Blatty (1928), Natalie Cole (1950), Winfield Scott (1786), and Jerry Seinfeld (1954). After him are Elizabeth Loftus (1944), George Dewey (1837), Terry Bisson (1942), Smokey Robinson (1940), Paul Strand (1890), and John Lasseter (1957).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 89. Before him are Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Leonard Susskind (1940), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), and Philip Morrison (1915). After him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Alan Guth (1947).

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