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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 169,478 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Thompson Jaynes is the 803rd most popular physicist (down from 747th in 2019), the 12,205th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,220th in 2019) and the 183rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 803 out of 851. Before him are Charlotte Froese Fischer, Frank Press, Narinder Singh Kapany, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, David J. Griffiths, and Mazlan Othman. After him are Stephen L. Adler, Karl Taylor Compton, Ernest Moniz, William Penney, Baron Penney, Edward Andrade, and Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 437. Before him are Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Helen Gurley Brown, Bill Macy, Ivor Broadis, Miloslava Misáková, and Audrey Meadows. After him are Joan Caulfield, Jean Porter, Ken Hughes, Herbert Goldstein, Esther M. Conwell, and Graham Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1998, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 313. Before him are Richard Denning, Voitto Hellsten, Buddy Jeannette, Esther Rolle, Bill Reid, and Donald Woods. After him are Barbara Burke, Ruth Clifford, Reidar Kvammen, Muriel Humphrey Brown, Cliff Barker, and Catherine Cookson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 12,205 out of 20,380. Before him are Martha Hudson (1939), Derek Jeter (1974), Rosanne Cash (1955), Cara Williams (1925), Naomi Grossman (1975), and Charles Ammi Cutter (1837). After him are Jacob Lawrence (1917), Virginia Brown Faire (1904), Rick Santorum (1958), Gina Rodriguez (1984), Lita (1975), and Mack Robinson (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 183. Before him are Daniel Kleppner (1932), Robert L. Forward (1932), Sarah Frances Whiting (1847), Robert Detweiler (1930), Frank Press (1924), and David J. Griffiths (1942). After him are Stephen L. Adler (1939), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), Ernest Moniz (1944), Herbert Goldstein (1922), J. Richard Gott (1947), and Richard A. Muller (1944).

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