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George Zweig

1937 - Today

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George Zweig (; born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Russian-Jewish origin. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Zweig has received more than 229,781 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). George Zweig is the 521st most popular physicist (down from 496th in 2019), the 1,248th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,158th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Russian Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Zweig ranks 521 out of 851. Before him are John Henry Schwarz, Heinrich Barkhausen, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Max Wien, Abraham Pais, and Konstantin Novoselov. After him are Yakir Aharonov, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Ernest Marsden, Edoardo Amaldi, Jayant Narlikar, and Ralph H. Fowler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, George Zweig ranks 245. Before him are Milutin Šoškić, Jiří Dienstbier, Michael Sata, Boris Cyrulnik, Alice Coltrane, and David Del Tredici. After him are Hildegard Behrens, Johnny Dorelli, Dyan Cannon, Vlatko Marković, Yukio Endo, and Richard Marquand.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Zweig ranks 1,248 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Aksyonov (1935), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Viktor Astafyev (1924), Vladimir Filatov (1875), and Philotheus of Pskov (1465). After him are August von Werder (1808), Lyudmila Zykina (1929), Boris Polevoy (1908), Vladimir Etush (1922), Vasily Gordov (1896), and Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (1897).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, George Zweig ranks 32. Before him are Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Andrei Linde (1948), Max Wien (1866), and Konstantin Novoselov (1974). After him are Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), and Yakov Frenkel (1894).

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