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Hugh Everett III

1930 - 1982

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Hugh Everett III (; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. In danger of losing his draft deferment, Everett took a research job with the Pentagon the year before completing the oral exam for his PhD and did not continue research in theoretical physics after his graduation. Afterward, he developed the use of generalized Lagrange multipliers for operations research and applied this commercially as a defense analyst and a consultant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Everett III has received more than 670,884 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hugh Everett III is the 157th most popular physicist (down from 156th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from United States (up from 661st in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Physicist.

Hugh Everett III is most famous for proposing the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hugh Everett III ranks 157 out of 851. Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Albert Fert, Hans Geiger, Maurice Wilkins, Arthur Compton, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. After him are Henry Moseley, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Klaus Fuchs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Louis Néel, and Yang Chen-Ning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Hugh Everett III ranks 34. Before him are Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Silvana Mangano, Harold Pinter, Johan Galtung, and Immanuel Wallerstein. After him are Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Zhores Alferov, Ali al-Sistani, George E. Smith, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, and Edsger W. Dijkstra. Among people deceased in 1982, Hugh Everett III ranks 26. Before him are Gala Dalí, Jacques Tati, Barack Obama Sr., Karl von Frisch, Glenn Gould, and Georges Perec. After him are John Belushi, Hugo Theorell, Gilles Villeneuve, Jiro Horikoshi, William Giauque, and Mikhail Suslov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugh Everett III ranks 581 out of 20,380. Before him are Harry Belafonte (1927), Roy Orbison (1936), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Stanley Cohen (1922), Matt Damon (1970), and William S. Burroughs (1914). After him are Jennifer Aniston (1969), Frank Abagnale (1948), Julianne Moore (1960), Carrie Fisher (1956), Glen Campbell (1936), and Linda Lovelace (1949).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Hugh Everett III ranks 19. Before him are Joseph Henry (1797), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Kip Thorne (1940), and Arthur Compton (1892). After him are Melvin Schwartz (1932), George E. Smith (1930), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), James Rainwater (1917), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839).

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