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Frank J. Tipler

1947 - Today

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Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. Tipler has written books and papers on the Omega Point based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's religious ideas, which he claims is a mechanism for the resurrection of the dead. He is also known for his theories on the Tipler cylinder time machine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank J. Tipler has received more than 370,209 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frank J. Tipler is the 563rd most popular physicist (up from 580th in 2019), the 5,015th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,664th in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank J. Tipler ranks 563 out of 851. Before him are John G. Trump, Paul Davies, Joseph Larmor, Pierre Weiss, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, and Matvei Bronstein. After him are Emil Warburg, Woldemar Voigt, Kenneth Bainbridge, August Beer, Carl August von Steinheil, and Vladimir Veksler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Frank J. Tipler ranks 380. Before him are Samuel Schmid, Svetlana Toma, Veríssimo Correia Seabra, Peer Steinbrück, Alan Thicke, and Stephen A. Schwarzman. After him are Peter M. Christian, Coline Serreau, Lydia Davis, Nicolae Dobrin, Don Felder, and Tatiana Tarasova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank J. Tipler ranks 5,015 out of 20,380. Before him are Martin Brest (1951), Len Bias (1963), Sylvia Beach (1887), William Smith (1933), Lenny Wilkens (1937), and Bradley Whitford (1959). After him are Boz Scaggs (1944), Yvette Mimieux (1942), John Templeton (1912), James Coco (1930), Daniel Baldwin (1960), and Haskell Curry (1900).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank J. Tipler ranks 113. Before him are Edward Condon (1902), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), Norman Holter (1914), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), and John G. Trump (1907). After him are Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), Charles W. Misner (1932), William D. Coolidge (1873), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Clyde Cowan (1919), and Joan Feynman (1927).

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