PHYSICIST

Howard P. Robertson

1903 - 1961

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Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University. Robertson made important contributions to the mathematics of quantum mechanics, general relativity and differential geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard P. Robertson has received more than 102,901 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Howard P. Robertson is the 725th most popular physicist (down from 716th in 2019), the 8,480th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,508th in 2019) and the 158th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Howard P. Robertson ranks 725 out of 851. Before him are Peter Mark Roget, Mark Oliphant, Pief Panofsky, Roald Sagdeev, Nikolay Umov, and John Joly. After him are Harvey Fletcher, Rudolf Haag, Henrik Svensmark, Julian Barbour, C. R. Hagen, and Joseph Polchinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Howard P. Robertson ranks 294. Before him are Millard Mitchell, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Kenneth Clark, Mikhail Svetlov, Léon-Étienne Duval, and Malcolm Muggeridge. After him are Marshall Harvey Stone, Olavi Paavolainen, Ruth Svedberg, Hermanni Pihlajamäki, Lucien Michard, and Josef Maleček. Among people deceased in 1961, Howard P. Robertson ranks 168. Before him are Zoltan Korda, Harry DeBaecke, Eugene Bullard, Robert L. Eichelberger, Whittaker Chambers, and Jānis Endzelīns. After him are Gail Russell, Miriam A. Ferguson, Ruth Chatterton, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Max Hainle, and Earle Page.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard P. Robertson ranks 8,480 out of 20,380. Before him are Leslie Jordan (1955), Corine Mauch (1960), Helen Slater (1963), Annette Charles (1948), Jay Silvester (1937), and Thurston Moore (1958). After him are David Clennon (1943), Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949), Jaime Pressly (1977), Kayden Kross (1985), Adam Scott (1973), and Richard Evans Schultes (1915).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Howard P. Robertson ranks 158. Before him are Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Albert W. Hull (1880), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Bill Nye (1955), Lisa Randall (1962), and Arthur Wightman (1922). After him are Harvey Fletcher (1884), C. R. Hagen (1937), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Seymour Benzer (1921), William Stanley Jr. (1858), and Frank Benford (1883).

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