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James Hansen

1941 - Today

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James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Hansen has received more than 872,458 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). James Hansen is the 610th most popular physicist (down from 564th in 2019), the 5,889th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,325th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Hansen ranks 610 out of 851. Before him are Wilhelm Hisinger, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Robert Mills, Marcel Brillouin, Burkhard Heim, and Bert Bolin. After him are John D. Barrow, Harry Daghlian, Harold Brown, Gustav Mie, Aleksandr Stoletov, and Harold Agnew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, James Hansen ranks 365. Before him are Luis Durnwalder, Vadim Glowna, Guido Reybrouck, Maurice Piat, Peter Ducke, and John Steel. After him are Ikuo Matsumoto, Roy Harper, Christine Delphy, Robert Pine, John Steiner, and G. A. Cohen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Hansen ranks 5,889 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Henri (1865), Greg Bear (1951), Karl Lashley (1890), Helen Herron Taft (1861), Harry Shearer (1943), and Buddy Rogers (1921). After him are Kathy Najimy (1957), Penn Badgley (1986), Ernie Terrell (1939), Chuck Close (1940), Eugene Polley (1915), and Rachel Jackson (1767).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, James Hansen ranks 124. Before him are Clyde Cowan (1919), Joan Feynman (1927), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), and Robert Mills (1927). After him are Harry Daghlian (1921), Harold Brown (1927), Harold Agnew (1921), Grote Reber (1911), Brian Greene (1963), and Lawrence M. Krauss (1954).

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