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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 283,052 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gregory Benford is the 3,090th most popular writer (down from 3,028th in 2019), the 4,030th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,911th in 2019) and the 360th most popular American Writer.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gregory Benford ranks 3,090 out of 5,755. Before him are Sergey Solovyov, Wilfred Owen, Dmitry Pisarev, John Evelyn, Ricarda Huch, and Delmira Agustini. After him are Licinius Macer Calvus, Antun Vrančić, Heinrich Vogeler, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Subh-i-Azal, and Mohammad-Taqi Bahar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Gregory Benford ranks 245. Before him are Silvio Moser, David Johnston, Jiří Raška, Alfred Aho, Mike Love, and John Williams. After him are Lothar Bisky, Lothar Emmerich, Vlado Milunić, Pino Donaggio, Ulf Merbold, and Vladimir Lyakhov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Benford ranks 4,030 out of 18,182. Before him are Bix Beiderbecke (1903), Bobby Vinton (1935), Dana Reeve (1961), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Maureen Stapleton (1925), and Ray Brown (1926). After him are Earl Hines (1903), Dimebag Darrell (1966), Nick Cravat (1912), Maggie Grace (1983), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), and Huey P. Newton (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gregory Benford ranks 360. Before him are Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Glen Cook (1944), Robert Bly (1926), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), and Glen A. Larson (1937). After him are Jim Carroll (1949), Bill Bryson (1951), John Perkins (1945), Spencer Johnson (1938), James Russell Lowell (1819), and Emma Lazarus (1849).

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