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Hugh David Politzer

1949 - Today

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Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh David Politzer has received more than 136,720 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Hugh David Politzer is the 271st most popular physicist (down from 265th in 2019), the 1,134th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,295th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Physicist.

Hugh David Politzer is most famous for his work in the field of particle physics. Politzer is a professor at the California Institute of Technology and is best known for his work on the discovery of the gluon.

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  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hugh David Politzer ranks 271 out of 851. Before him are Daniel Rutherford, John Vincent Atanasoff, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Andrew Huxley, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. After him are Johannes Rydberg, Edmond Becquerel, August Kundt, Carlo Rubbia, Leo Esaki, and Ernest Walton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Hugh David Politzer ranks 64. Before him are Jim Broadbent, Peter Shilton, Zoia Ceaușescu, Miuccia Prada, Gene Simmons, and Shelley Duvall. After him are Tom Berenger, Teófilo Cubillas, Sissy Spacek, Issei Sagawa, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and Cliff Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugh David Politzer ranks 1,134 out of 20,380. Before him are James M. Buchanan (1919), Richard S. Castellano (1933), Ike Turner (1931), Stanley Miller (1930), Willie Nelson (1933), and Will Durant (1885). After him are Richard Matheson (1926), Gordon Parks (1912), James Cagney (1899), William Styron (1925), Charles Cooley (1864), and George H. Hitchings (1905).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Hugh David Politzer ranks 58. Before him are Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), and John Vincent Atanasoff (1903). After him are Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), William Daniel Phillips (1948), David Gross (1941), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), and Robert B. Laughlin (1950).

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