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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 340,354 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Frank J. Tipler is the 580th most popular physicist (down from 564th in 2019), the 5,676th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,343rd in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank J. Tipler ranks 580 out of 717Before him are José Celestino Mutis, Victor J. Stenger, Burkhard Heim, Edith Clarke, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, and Artem Alikhanian. After him are C. P. Snow, Gordon Gould, Isaak Khalatnikov, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Ted Fujita, and Bill Nye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Frank J. Tipler ranks 384Before him are Robert David Hall, Natalya Varley, Jude Ciccolella, Stuart Gordon, Rodney Williams, and Pia Kjærsgaard. After him are Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Afeni Shakur, Alfredo Cristiani, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Svetlana Toma, and Tanith Lee.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank J. Tipler ranks 5,676 out of 18,182Before him are William Guarnere (1923), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Boz Scaggs (1944), Forrest Smithson (1884), Van Johnson (1916), and Roy Thinnes (1938). After him are Norah Jones (1979), Lee Ritenour (1952), Afeni Shakur (1947), Gary Payton (1968), Curly Howard (1903), and Larry Brown (1940).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank J. Tipler ranks 115Before him are Charles Kittel (1916), Robert Mills (1927), Bryce DeWitt (1923), James Hansen (1941), Victor J. Stenger (1935), and Edith Clarke (1883). After him are Gordon Gould (1920), Bill Nye (1955), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Joan Feynman (1927), and Lawrence M. Krauss (1954).