1951 - Today
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Witten has received more than 2,557,728 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Witten is the 345th most popular physicist (up from 353rd in 2019), the 2,198th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,207th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Edward Witten ranks 345 out of 717. Before him are Shuji Nakamura, Walter A. Shewhart, Ami Argand, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Heinrich Geißler, and Donna Strickland. After him are Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, and Galileo Ferraris.
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 339
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 340
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 341
1683 - 1744
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 342
1814 - 1879
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 343
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 344
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 345
1891 - 1951
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 346
1700 - 1770
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 347
1695 - 1771
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 348
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 349
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 350
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 351
Among people born in 1951, Edward Witten ranks 80. Before him are Javier Marías, Joe Pantoliano, Fernando Lugo, Ben Feringa, Thomas Boni Yayi, and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti. After him are Mamoru Oshii, James Newton Howard, Joe Lynn Turner, Šaban Šaulić, Isabel Preysler, and Horst Hrubesch.
1951 - 2022
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 74
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 75
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 76
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 77
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 78
1951 - 2007
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 79
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 80
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 81
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 82
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 83
1951 - 2019
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 84
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 85
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 86
Among people born in United States, Edward Witten ranks 2,198 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Zwick (1952), Victor Mature (1913), Karl Malone (1963), Langston Hughes (1902), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), and Richard Rodgers (1902). After him are Samuel Fuller (1912), Charles Whitman (1941), David Baltimore (1938), Lee J. Cobb (1911), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), and George Crumb (1929).
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 2,192
1913 - 1999
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 2,193
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 2,194
1902 - 1967
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,195
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,196
1902 - 1979
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,197
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 2,198
1912 - 1997
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 2,199
1941 - 1966
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 2,200
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 2,201
1911 - 1976
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 2,202
1863 - 1941
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 2,203
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 2,204
Among physicists born in United States, Edward Witten ranks 70. Before him are Steven Chu (1948), Nathan Rosen (1909), John Mauchly (1907), Frank Wilczek (1951), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Walter A. Shewhart (1891). After him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901).
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 64
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 65
1907 - 1980
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 66
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 67
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 69
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 70
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 71
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 72
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74
1921 - 2007
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 75
1901 - 1967
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 76