ASTRONOMER

Eugene Parker

1927 - 2022

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Eugene Newman Parker (June 10, 1927 – March 15, 2022) was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions that were later confirmed by spacecraft measurements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Parker has received more than 332,645 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Eugene Parker is the 349th most popular astronomer (down from 341st in 2019), the 5,142nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,180th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 330k

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  • 50.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Eugene Parker ranks 349 out of 644. Before him are Hugo von Seeliger, Charles Dillon Perrine, James W. Christy, Frank Muller, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Takeshi Urata. After him are Herbert Friedman, Hervé Faye, Bart Bok, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Viktor Knorre, and Heikki A. Alikoski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Eugene Parker ranks 242. Before him are Herbert Ross, Laurel Aitken, Yevgeny Morgunov, Robert Spaemann, Luis Rijo, and Shoji Nishio. After him are Charles Pasqua, William Hickey, Charles de Tornaco, Michael Gielen, Dimitar Iliev Popov, and Hamed Karoui. Among people deceased in 2022, Eugene Parker ranks 270. Before him are Nehemiah Persoff, Arne Åhman, Ivan Dziuba, Máté Fenyvesi, Henk Groot, and Shireen Abu Akleh. After him are Javier Lozano Barragán, Alevtina Kolchina, Gerben Karstens, Eva-Maria Hagen, Bill Nieder, and Sacheen Littlefeather.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Parker ranks 5,142 out of 20,380. Before him are James Thurber (1894), Eileen Heckart (1919), Stephen Root (1951), Sid Haig (1939), Ann Blyth (1928), and John Norman (1931). After him are Mary Surratt (1823), George Devol (1912), George Horine (1890), Donella Meadows (1941), Tyrese Gibson (1978), and Sewall Wright (1889).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Eugene Parker ranks 64. Before him are Alvan Clark (1804), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), James W. Christy (1938), and Frank Muller (1862). After him are Herbert Friedman (1916), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Alvan Graham Clark (1832), James Edward Keeler (1857), and Margaret Geller (1947).

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