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Ernest Moniz

1944 - Today

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Ernest Jeffrey Moniz, GCIH (Portuguese: [muˈniʃ]; born December 22, 1944) is an American nuclear physicist and former government official. From May 2013 to January 2017, he served as the 13th United States secretary of energy in the Obama administration. Prior to this, Moniz served as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and undersecretary of energy from 1997 to 2001 during the Clinton administration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Moniz has received more than 1,002,239 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Moniz is the 806th most popular physicist (down from 757th in 2019), the 12,296th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,127th in 2019) and the 186th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernest Moniz ranks 806 out of 851. Before him are Udupi Ramachandra Rao, David J. Griffiths, Mazlan Othman, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Stephen L. Adler, and Karl Taylor Compton. After him are William Penney, Baron Penney, Edward Andrade, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Herbert Goldstein, Carlos Frenk, and J. Richard Gott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ernest Moniz ranks 700. Before him are Ann Oakley, Shelley Fabares, Magdaleno Mercado, Mel Daniels, James van Hoften, and Tony Orlando. After him are Neil Young, Nicolas Chumachenco, Jan Brewer, Cathy Lee Crosby, Celeste Yarnall, and Richard A. Muller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernest Moniz ranks 12,296 out of 20,380. Before him are Lauryn Williams (1983), Nan Martin (1927), Arabian Prince (1965), Noel Neill (1920), Road Warrior Hawk (1957), and Norman Podhoretz (1930). After him are Richard Cushing (1895), Diplo (1978), Scott Wolf (1968), Norman Taber (1891), Joseph Lamb (1887), and Cain Velasquez (1982).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ernest Moniz ranks 186. Before him are Robert Detweiler (1930), Frank Press (1924), David J. Griffiths (1942), Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922), Stephen L. Adler (1939), and Karl Taylor Compton (1887). After him are Herbert Goldstein (1922), J. Richard Gott (1947), Richard A. Muller (1944), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Howard Georgi (1947), and Paul Steinhardt (1952).

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