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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 315,172 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eugene Parker is the 341st most popular astronomer (down from 329th in 2019), the 5,192nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,048th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 23

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  • 3.92

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  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Eugene Parker ranks 341 out of 531. Before him are Georges Rayet, Gustav Spörer, Viktor Knorre, Maarten Schmidt, Félix Tisserand, and Luboš Kohoutek. After him are Dirk Brouwer, Paul W. Merrill, Odette Bancilhon, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and Joseph Helffrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Eugene Parker ranks 227. Before him are Júlio Duarte Langa, László Paskai, Yusuf Idris, Thanin Kraivichien, Torbjørn Falkanger, and Claude Abbes. After him are Jarl Kulle, William Perry, Robert Spaemann, Nikola Kljusev, Michael Constantine, and Håkon Brusveen. Among people deceased in 2022, Eugene Parker ranks 246. Before him are Mulayam Singh Yadav, Maarten Schmidt, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Anatoly Alyabyev, Herman Daly, and Peter Straub. After him are Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Mino De Rossi, Birju Maharaj, André Wilms, Jean Philippe, and Heidi Biebl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Parker ranks 5,192 out of 18,182. Before him are Scott Columbus (1956), Antoine Fuqua (1966), Charles Kittel (1916), Jack Northrop (1895), Carl Scarborough (1914), and Edward O. Thorp (1932). After him are Scott LaFaro (1936), Dennis Dugan (1946), Jennifer Esposito (1973), Paul Scheuring (1968), Kerwin Mathews (1926), and Randy Orton (1980).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Eugene Parker ranks 63. Before him are Adam Riess (1969), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Alvan Clark (1804), and Frank Muller (1862). After him are Paul W. Merrill (1887), David Rittenhouse (1732), Sandra Faber (1944), Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), and Forest Ray Moulton (1872).

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