WRITER

Gregory Benford

1941 - Today

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Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine.Benford wrote the Galactic Center Saga science fiction novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory Benford has received more than 279,831 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Gregory Benford is the 3,255th most popular writer (down from 3,079th in 2019), the 4,143rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,019th in 2019) and the 350th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Artifact
Fiction, Science Fiction, Mycenae
The discovery of a mysterious artifact in an ancient Greek tomb--an object concealing both the secret of Atlantis and an unimaginable power--leads Americans John and Claire into confrontation with Greek revolutionaries and the U.S. Secret Service.
1985
Timescape
1980
Great sky river
1984
Across the sea of suns
Fiction
1984
In the ocean of night
Fiction in English, American Science fiction
1977
The New Machiavelli
Fiction in English
1900

Page views of Gregory Benfords by language

Over the past year Gregory Benford has had the most page views in the with 30,329 views, followed by Spanish (2,894), and Italian (2,574). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (90.70%), Egyptian Arabic (90.05%), and Simple English (75.59%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gregory Benford ranks 3,255 out of 7,302. Before him are Frances Burney, Gabriela Zapolska, Manès Sperber, Claude Bourgelat, Kosta Khetagurov, and Kan Kikuchi. After him are Jacques Delille, Oles Honchar, Emile Habibi, R. K. Narayan, Arnošt Muka, and Ennio Flaiano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Gregory Benford ranks 256. Before him are George Clinton, George Pell, Roberto Calasso, Lynne Cheney, Sally Kirkland, and Silvio Moser. After him are Ignazio Giunti, John Henry Schwarz, Pak Seung-zin, Lothar Bisky, Andrea de Adamich, and Pasqual Maragall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Benford ranks 4,143 out of 20,380. Before him are Kim Darby (1947), John Petrucci (1967), Andreas Katsulas (1946), Eugene Odum (1913), Edward R. Murrow (1908), and Lucian Pulvermacher (1918). After him are Alan Sokal (1955), Nick Cravat (1912), Milt Jackson (1923), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), and Thomas Sowell (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gregory Benford ranks 350. Before him are Anne Tyler (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Peter Benchley (1940), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), and Edward Bellamy (1850). After him are Willa Cather (1873), Wallace Stevens (1879), Douglas Preston (1956), Robert McKee (1941), Morgan Robertson (1861), and Rose Wilder Lane (1886).

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