1911 - 2002
Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) was an American pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies.His 1937 radio antenna was the second ever to be used for astronomical purposes and the first parabolic reflecting antenna to be used as a radio telescope. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grote Reber has received more than 118,846 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Grote Reber is the 445th most popular physicist (up from 462nd in 2019), the 3,551st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,687th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Grote Reber ranks 445 out of 717. Before him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Eugen Goldstein, Richard Mollier, G. M. B. Dobson, Ivan Puluj, and Heinrich Rubens. After him are Friedrich Kohlrausch, Jacques Babinet, William Robert Grove, Hiroshi Amano, Walther Ritz, and Charles Galton Darwin.
1797 - 1869
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 439
1860 - 1930
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 440
1863 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 441
1889 - 1975
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 442
1845 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 443
1865 - 1922
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 444
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 445
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 446
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 447
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 448
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 449
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 450
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 451
Among people born in 1911, Grote Reber ranks 125. Before him are Brunhilde Pomsel, Mstislav Keldysh, Merle Oberon, Gustave Gilbert, Paul Carell, and Anatoly Rybakov. After him are Theodore Romzha, Barbara West, Prince Carl Bernadotte, José María Arguedas, Guy Burgess, and Son Sann. Among people deceased in 2002, Grote Reber ranks 122. Before him are Dudley Moore, Mamo Wolde, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Inge Morath, Branko Stanković, and Günter Wand. After him are John Thaw, Robert Guéï, Marion Dönhoff, Domènec Balmanya, Gabriel Almond, and Franjo Kuharić.
1911 - 2017
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 119
1911 - 1978
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 120
1911 - 1979
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 121
1911 - 1977
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 122
1911 - 1997
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 123
1911 - 1998
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 124
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 125
1911 - 1947
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 126
1911 - 2007
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 127
1911 - 2003
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 128
1911 - 1969
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 129
1911 - 1963
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 130
1911 - 2000
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 131
1935 - 2002
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 116
1932 - 2002
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 117
1928 - 2002
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 118
1923 - 2002
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 119
1921 - 2002
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 120
1912 - 2002
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 121
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 122
1942 - 2002
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 123
1941 - 2002
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 124
1909 - 2002
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 125
1914 - 2002
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 126
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 127
1919 - 2002
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 128
Among people born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 3,551 out of 18,182. Before him are J. Christopher Stevens (1960), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Allen Iverson (1975), Edwin Catmull (1945), Paul Gleason (1939), and Brian Herbert (1947). After him are Bernie Mac (1957), Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), Frederick William Franz (1893), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Jean Peters (1926), and William Baumol (1922).
1960 - 2012
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 3,545
1821 - 1875
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 3,546
1975 - Present
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 3,547
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,548
1939 - 2006
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,549
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,550
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,551
1957 - 2008
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,552
1977 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,553
1893 - 1992
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3,554
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,555
1926 - 2000
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,556
1922 - 2017
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 3,557
Among physicists born in United States, Grote Reber ranks 88. Before him are Philip Abelson (1913), Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Saul Perlmutter (1959). After him are Alan Sokal (1955), Alan Guth (1947), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), and Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898).
1913 - 2004
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 83
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 84
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 85
1922 - 2015
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 86
1959 - Present
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 87
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 88
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 89
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 90
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 92
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 93
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 94