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Edwin Thompson Jaynes

1922 - 1998

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Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5, 1922 – April 30, 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the maximum entropy interpretation of thermodynamics as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Thompson Jaynes has received more than 156,807 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edwin Thompson Jaynes is the 747th most popular physicist (down from 696th in 2019), the 11,246th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,054th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 747 out of 717. Before him are Bertrand Halperin, Seth Neddermeyer, John Houghton, Mary K. Gaillard, Werner Israel, and Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain. After him are Brian Cox, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Norris Bradbury, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Nima Arkani-Hamed, and Yash Pal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 384. Before him are Turhan Bey, Helen Gurley Brown, Billy Liddell, Emil Wolf, Len Lesser, and Mavis Gallant. After him are Eugenie Clark, Audrey Meadows, Jean Porter, Herb McKenley, Kathleen Booth, and Herbert Goldstein. Among people deceased in 1998, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 281. Before him are Ruth Clifford, Ram Swarup, Muriel Humphrey Brown, Sam Balter, Lalita Pawar, and Eleanor Garatti. After him are Catherine Cookson, Esther Rolle, Cliff Barker, Wade Dominguez, Fred Wacker, and Barbara Burke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 11,246 out of 18,182. Before him are Lynndie England (1982), Susan Downey (1973), Chris Parnell (1967), Cass Sunstein (1954), Steve Khan (1947), and Kelly Carlson (1976). After him are Blair Underwood (1964), Daniel Cosgrove (1970), Gene Okerlund (1942), Frederick Hauck (1941), Katie Couric (1957), and Kate Nauta (1982).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 167. Before him are James Hartle (1939), Daniel Kleppner (1932), Robert Serber (1909), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), and Mary K. Gaillard (1939). After him are Norris Bradbury (1909), Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972), Herbert Goldstein (1922), Richard A. Muller (1944), Howard Georgi (1947), and Ernest Moniz (1944).

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