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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 25,140 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ira Sprague Bowen is the 498th most popular physicist (up from 511th in 2019), the 3,886th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,462nd in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ira Sprague Bowens by language

Over the past year Ira Sprague Bowen has had the most page views in the with 2,774 views, followed by Chinese (2,228), and Czech (679). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (111.48%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (73.47%), and Czech (66.83%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 498 out of 851. Before him are Gordon Gould, Alexei Starobinsky, William Robert Grove, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Raoul Pictet, and Walter Heitler. After him are Walther Ritz, Richard Mollier, Claude Pouillet, Théophile de Donder, Jakob II Bernoulli, and Edwin H. Land.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 127. Before him are Benjamin Fondane, Vilhelm Moberg, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Lucius D. Clay, and Ben Shahn. After him are Ada Blackjack, Walther von Hünersdorff, Leopold Okulicki, Pavel Urysohn, Helen B. Taussig, and Erich Bey. Among people deceased in 1973, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 132. Before him are Nikolay Kamov, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Jim Croce, Sergei Tumansky, Günther Pancke, and Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz. After him are Laurens Hammond, Adolfo Zumelzú, Dean Corll, Alexander Mosolov, José Alfredo Jiménez, and Aleksandr Ptushko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 3,886 out of 20,380. Before him are Lois Lowry (1937), Benjamin Libet (1916), Ron Rivest (1947), Olivia Rodrigo (2003), Mimsy Farmer (1945), and Greg Kinnear (1963). After him are William Stewart Halsted (1852), Paul Reiser (1957), John Marley (1907), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Ted Williams (1918), and Lenny Bruce (1925).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ira Sprague Bowen ranks 99. Before him are Richard C. Tolman (1881), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Alan Guth (1947), Clarence Zener (1905), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), and Gordon Gould (1920). After him are Edwin H. Land (1909), Gene Amdahl (1922), Theodore Hall (1925), Lester Germer (1896), Alan Sokal (1955), and John Henry Schwarz (1941).

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