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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 818,850 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). James Hansen is the 564th most popular physicist (up from 609th in 2019), the 5,337th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,376th in 2019) and the 112th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 820k

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  • 48.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Hansen ranks 564 out of 717. Before him are Nicholas Kurti, Sumio Iijima, Aleksandr Stoletov, Robert Mills, Bryce DeWitt, and Georg Adolf Erman. After him are Gustav Mie, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Ludvig Faddeev, Lev Artsimovich, Francis Hauksbee, and Fabiola Gianotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, James Hansen ranks 321. Before him are Ewa Demarczyk, Ibrahim Babangida, Heidi Biebl, Roy Harper, Hank Marvin, and Margaret Price. After him are Kálmán Mészöly, Anatoli Firsov, Henry Carr, Kornel Morawiecki, Tom Conti, and Derek Bell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Hansen ranks 5,337 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard Lewontin (1929), Camille Paglia (1947), Irvin McDowell (1818), Robert Motherwell (1915), Tom Noonan (1951), and Saunders Mac Lane (1909). After him are Lou Donaldson (1926), Hoagy Carmichael (1899), Jesse L. Lasky (1880), Caroline Harrison (1832), Pearl White (1889), and Margaret Weis (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, James Hansen ranks 112. Before him are Brian Greene (1963), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), William D. Coolidge (1873), Charles Kittel (1916), Robert Mills (1927), and Bryce DeWitt (1923). After him are Victor J. Stenger (1935), Edith Clarke (1883), Frank J. Tipler (1947), Gordon Gould (1920), Bill Nye (1955), and Henry Augustus Rowland (1848).

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