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Herbert Goldstein

1922 - 2005

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Herbert Goldstein (June 26, 1922 – January 12, 2005) was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook Classical Mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Goldstein has received more than 92,250 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Goldstein is the 810th most popular physicist (down from 754th in 2019), the 12,564th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,679th in 2019) and the 187th most popular American Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Herbert Goldstein ranks 810 out of 851. Before him are Stephen L. Adler, Karl Taylor Compton, Ernest Moniz, William Penney, Baron Penney, Edward Andrade, and Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell. After him are Carlos Frenk, J. Richard Gott, Richard A. Muller, Marcia Barbosa, Albert-László Barabási, and Jeremiah P. Ostriker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Herbert Goldstein ranks 441. Before him are Miloslava Misáková, Audrey Meadows, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Joan Caulfield, Jean Porter, and Ken Hughes. After him are Esther M. Conwell, Graham Whitehead, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Francis Pym, Fortune Gordien, and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Among people deceased in 2005, Herbert Goldstein ranks 354. Before him are Michael Park, Kazimierz Lipień, Eugene J. Martin, Lucky Thompson, André Testut, and Mason Adams. After him are Ronnie Barker, Alan Dundes, Domino Harvey, August Wilson, Jesús Iglesias, and Ted Ditchburn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Goldstein ranks 12,564 out of 20,380. Before him are Lowell Thomas (1892), Booker Ervin (1930), Jenn Suhr (1982), Kim Reynolds (1959), James Forbes (1952), and Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859). After him are William Daniels (1901), Wayne Frye (1930), Lina Basquette (1907), Peter Erskine (1954), Craig Wasson (1954), and Tom Gola (1933).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Herbert Goldstein ranks 187. Before him are Frank Press (1924), David J. Griffiths (1942), Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922), Stephen L. Adler (1939), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), and Ernest Moniz (1944). After him are J. Richard Gott (1947), Richard A. Muller (1944), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Howard Georgi (1947), Paul Steinhardt (1952), and Carver Mead (1934).

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