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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Agnew has received more than 176,550 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Agnew is the 599th most popular physicist (down from 575th in 2019), the 6,079th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,674th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harold Agnew ranks 599 out of 717. Before him are John Lennard-Jones, Alvin M. Weinberg, Joan Feynman, Michael Fisher, Lawrence M. Krauss, and William Astbury. After him are Stuart Hameroff, Hertha Sponer, Heinrich Kayser, Evelyn Fox Keller, Adriaan Fokker, and Theodore Lyman IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Harold Agnew ranks 273. Before him are Ottavio Missoni, Piero Carini, James Blish, Alan Freed, Tafari Benti, and Cuthbert Sebastian. After him are Yuri Ozerov, Jean Richard, János Pilinszky, Ferenc Karinthy, George Nader, and Jan Sterling. Among people deceased in 2013, Harold Agnew ranks 285. Before him are Zlatko Papec, Jerry Buss, Imre Nagy, Ottavio Missoni, Valeri Zolotukhin, and Boris Vasilyev. After him are Viktor Tsybulenko, Bill Sharman, Princess Margarita of Baden, Vivi Bach, Amparo Rivelles, and Ramon Dekkers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Agnew ranks 6,079 out of 18,182. Before him are Van McCoy (1940), Laura Hope Crews (1879), Henry Thomas (1971), Candy Barr (1935), Jon Lovitz (1957), and Freddie Spencer (1961). After him are Josh Hutcherson (1992), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), George Ritzer (1940), Scott Patterson (1958), and Diane di Prima (1934).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Harold Agnew ranks 122. Before him are Gordon Gould (1920), Bill Nye (1955), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Joan Feynman (1927), and Lawrence M. Krauss (1954). After him are Stuart Hameroff (1947), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Harold Brown (1927), Charles Stark Draper (1901), and John C. Slater (1900).

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