PHYSICIST

Harold Brown

1927 - 2019

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Harold Brown (September 19, 1927 – January 4, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter. Previously, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, he held the posts of Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1961–1965) and United States Secretary of the Air Force (1965–1969). A child prodigy, Brown graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at age 15, and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University at age 21. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Brown has received more than 22,444 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Harold Brown is the 613th most popular physicist, the 5,941st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,243rd in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 56.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harold Brown ranks 613 out of 851. Before him are Marcel Brillouin, Burkhard Heim, Bert Bolin, James Hansen, John D. Barrow, and Harry Daghlian. After him are Gustav Mie, Aleksandr Stoletov, Harold Agnew, Mario Livio, Grote Reber, and Walther Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Harold Brown ranks 278. Before him are Pierre Aubert, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Robert Alt, Hirotugu Akaike, Tihomir Ognjanov, and George O. Abell. After him are Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Jan Myrdal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Serge Lang, Arturo Armando Molina, and Otto Stich. Among people deceased in 2019, Harold Brown ranks 287. Before him are Ellen Schwiers, Arif Malikov, Paolo Sardi, Babiker Awadalla, Isacio Calleja, and Li Rui. After him are Michael J. Pollard, Owen Garriott, Charlie Whiting, Carol Channing, Shivakumara Swami, and Imata Kabua.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Brown ranks 5,941 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Douglass White (1845), Jonelle Allen (1944), David Keith (1954), Mark Cuban (1958), Jerry Sloan (1942), and Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823). After him are Emma Roberts (1991), Lola Albright (1924), Jeanne Eagels (1890), Dooley Wilson (1886), Eva Cassidy (1963), and Dan Bricklin (1951).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Harold Brown ranks 126. Before him are Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), and Harry Daghlian (1921). After him are Harold Agnew (1921), Grote Reber (1911), Brian Greene (1963), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Norris Bradbury (1909), and Leo Kadanoff (1937).

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