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Hélène Langevin-Joliot

1927 - Today

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Hélène Langevin-Joliot (née Joliot-Curie; born 19 September 1927) is a French nuclear physicist known for her research on nuclear reactions in French laboratories and for being the granddaughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the daughter of Irene Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, all four of whom have received Nobel Prizes, in Physics (Pierre and Marie Curie) or Chemistry (Marie Curie and the Joliot-Curies). Since retiring from a career in research Hélène has participated in activism centered around encouraging women and girls to participate in STEM fields. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélène Langevin-Joliot has received more than 1,074,165 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hélène Langevin-Joliot is the 306th most popular physicist (down from 303rd in 2019), the 1,409th most popular biography from France (up from 1,501st in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hélène Langevin-Joliots by language

Over the past year Hélène Langevin-Joliot has had the most page views in the with 122,260 views, followed by French (36,019), and Polish (33,427). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (171.51%), Southern Azerbaijani (143.48%), and Russian (114.46%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hélène Langevin-Joliot ranks 306 out of 851. Before her are William Daniel Phillips, Freeman Dyson, Andre Geim, Giorgio Parisi, Jack Steinberger, and Abdul Qadeer Khan. After her are David Gross, Ratko Janev, Paul-Jacques Curie, Moshé Feldenkrais, James Jeans, and Vagn Walfrid Ekman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hélène Langevin-Joliot ranks 69. Before her are Romano Mussolini, Thomas Luckmann, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Margot Honecker, Ibrahim Ferrer, and Abdul Halim of Kedah. After her are Jacques Mayol, Jean-Claude Pascal, Claude Gensac, Narciso Yepes, Herbert Blomstedt, and César Milstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hélène Langevin-Joliot ranks 1,409 out of 6,770. Before her are Marius Jacob (1879), Clément Janequin (1485), Cécile Chaminade (1857), Paul Painlevé (1863), André Campra (1660), and Odilo of Cluny (961). After her are Emma Watson (1990), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Geneviève Grad (1944), Robert III, Count of Flanders (1249), Henry I, Count of Champagne (1127), and Ernest Meissonier (1815).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Hélène Langevin-Joliot ranks 31. Before her are Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Anne L'Huillier (1958). After her are Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Henri Pitot (1695), Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785).

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