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Ira Sprague Bowen

1898 - 1973

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Ira Sprague Bowen (December 21, 1898 – February 6, 1973) was an American physicist and astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ira Sprague Bowen has received more than 25,408 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ira Sprague Bowen is the 511th most popular physicist (up from 550th in 2019), the 4,474th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,965th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 50.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 511 out of 717. Before him are Paul Davies, Leonid Mandelstam, John G. Trump, Anatole Abragam, Berta Karlik, and Christian Mayer. After him are Macedonio Melloni, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, August Beer, Leopoldo Nobili, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Carlo Rovelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 142. Before him are Mikhail Koshkin, Erich Bey, Eduard Pütsep, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Lev Knipper, and Pyotr Leshchenko. After him are Alfred Sauvy, Rudolph Maté, Eugen Wüster, Mikhail Koltsov, Ninette de Valois, and Helene Engelmann. Among people deceased in 1973, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 142. Before him are Frances Marion, István Kertész, Nancy Mitford, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Aleksandr Ptushko, and Mikhail Isakovsky. After him are Adolfo Zumelzú, Sergei Tumansky, Nobuko Yoshiya, Rafael Franco, Ramón de la Fuente Leal, and Kid Ory.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 4,474 out of 18,182. Before him are E. G. Marshall (1914), Ed Heinemann (1908), Ambrose Burnside (1824), William Porter (1926), Thom Barry (1950), and Holt McCallany (1963). After him are Pat Benatar (1953), Neal McDonough (1966), Randall Collins (1941), Lainie Kazan (1940), Kevin McCarthy (1914), and Mike Bongiorno (1924).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 99. Before him are Robert Brout (1928), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Richard C. Tolman (1881), and John G. Trump (1907). After him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Clarence Zener (1905), Lester Germer (1896), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Samuel T. Cohen (1921).

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