PHYSICIST

Harold Agnew

1921 - 2013

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Harold Melvin Agnew (March 28, 1921 – September 29, 2013) was an American physicist, best known for having flown as a scientific observer on the Hiroshima bombing mission and, later, as the third director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.Agnew joined the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1942, and helped build Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor. In 1943, he joined the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he worked with the Cockcroft–Walton generator. After the war ended, he returned to the University of Chicago, where he completed his graduate work under Enrico Fermi.Agnew returned to Los Alamos in 1949, and worked on the Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Agnew has received more than 173,551 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Agnew is the 615th most popular physicist (down from 599th in 2019), the 5,973rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,066th in 2019) and the 127th most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Harold Agnews by language

Over the past year Harold Agnew has had the most page views in the with 34,696 views, followed by Japanese (10,350), and Russian (4,295). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (82.01%), Portuguese (69.34%), and French (50.24%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harold Agnew ranks 615 out of 851. Before him are James Hansen, John D. Barrow, Harry Daghlian, Harold Brown, Gustav Mie, and Aleksandr Stoletov. After him are Mario Livio, Grote Reber, Walther Müller, Brian Greene, John Lennard-Jones, and Lawrence M. Krauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Harold Agnew ranks 271. Before him are Buddy Rogers, Paco Godia, Alfréd Rényi, Harry Daghlian, Helena Rakoczy, and David Gale. After him are John Agar, Yuri Ozerov, Fred Buscaglione, Jacques Martin, Piero Carini, and Giuseppe Delfino. Among people deceased in 2013, Harold Agnew ranks 286. Before him are Miguel Poblet, Marcia Wallace, Kenneth Appel, Michel Brault, Paolo Soleri, and Helen Thomas. After him are John Thomas, Hennadiy Udovenko, Moses Blah, Amparo Rivelles, Rossella Falk, and Chico Hamilton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Agnew ranks 5,973 out of 20,380. Before him are Ollie Johnston (1912), David Gale (1921), James Marsters (1962), Ossie Davis (1917), Gary Dourdan (1966), and Don Wilson (1954). After him are Mary-Claire King (1946), John Agar (1921), Richard N. Frye (1920), John Randolph (1915), Michael J. Pollard (1939), and Daniel Burnham (1846).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Harold Agnew ranks 127. Before him are Robert H. Dicke (1916), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), Harry Daghlian (1921), and Harold Brown (1927). After him are Grote Reber (1911), Brian Greene (1963), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), and Charles Kittel (1916).

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