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Gerard K. O'Neill

1927 - 1992

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Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard K. O'Neill has received more than 258,970 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gerard K. O'Neill is the 525th most popular physicist (up from 589th in 2019), the 4,719th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,934th in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gerard K. O'Neill ranks 525 out of 717Before him are Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, Lester Germer, Max Wien, Sergey Kapitsa, and John Sealy Townsend. After him are Samuel T. Cohen, Yakir Aharonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Georg Hermann Quincke, Woldemar Voigt, and Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Gerard K. O'Neill ranks 206Before him are Michael Gielen, Franco Maria Malfatti, Adhemar da Silva, Herbert Ross, Simin Behbahani, and Roger Carel. After him are Werner Liebrich, Theodor Wagner, Charles Pasqua, Hamed Karoui, Freddie Jones, and William Daniels. Among people deceased in 1992, Gerard K. O'Neill ranks 137Before him are Chuck Connors, Richard Yates, Viktor Grishin, Sándor Veress, Nie Rongzhen, and Piotr Jaroszewicz. After him are Farag Foda, Jean Aerts, Musa Anter, Robert Berdella, Arthur Cronquist, and Freddie Bartholomew.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gerard K. O'Neill ranks 4,719 out of 18,182Before him are Seymour Hersh (1937), Brian Krause (1969), Barney Kessel (1923), Carol Potter (1948), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), and David Paich (1954). After him are Jimi Jamison (1951), Jonathan Winters (1925), Layne Staley (1967), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), and Edmund Muskie (1914).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Gerard K. O'Neill ranks 104Before him are John G. Trump (1907), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Clarence Zener (1905), and Lester Germer (1896). After him are Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Brian Greene (1963), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), William D. Coolidge (1873), Charles Kittel (1916), and Robert Mills (1927).