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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 126,514 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Hugh David Politzer is the 265th most popular physicist (up from 281st in 2019), the 1,295th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,439th in 2019) and the 54th 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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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hugh David Politzer ranks 265 out of 717Before him are John Cockcroft, Moshé Feldenkrais, Rainer Weiss, Abdul Qadeer Khan, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Philip Warren Anderson. After him are Jack Steinberger, Henry Way Kendall, Joseph Swan, Patrick Blackett, Douglas Osheroff, and Andre Geim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Hugh David Politzer ranks 62Before him are Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Ivana Trump, Zoia Ceaușescu, Ruud Krol, Fanny Ardant, and Shelley Duvall. After him are Brigitte Bierlein, Valery Leontiev, Annie Leibovitz, Jim Broadbent, Sissy Spacek, and Miuccia Prada.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugh David Politzer ranks 1,295 out of 18,182Before him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Grandma Moses (1860), Edith Wharton (1862), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), and Shelley Duvall (1949). After him are Aaron Copland (1900), Dean Reed (1938), Kelly McGillis (1957), Lucille Ball (1911), George Carlin (1937), and Raymond A. Spruance (1886).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Hugh David Politzer ranks 54Before him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), David Bohm (1992), Julian Schwinger (1918), David J. Wineland (1944), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and Philip Warren Anderson (1923). After him are Henry Way Kendall (1926), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), David Gross (1941), and William Daniel Phillips (1948).