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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 305,332 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Gregory Benford is the 3,256th 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.

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  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gregory Benford ranks 3,256 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 257. 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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