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Jeffrey Goldstone

1933 - Today

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Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a British theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty member at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977. He is noted for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeffrey Goldstone has received more than 70,089 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jeffrey Goldstone is the 777th most popular physicist (down from 735th in 2019), the 5,196th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,997th in 2019) and the 86th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jeffrey Goldstone ranks 777 out of 851. Before him are Erwin Hahn, Charles Sheffield, Daulat Singh Kothari, Hedwig Kohn, Walter Munk, and Brian Cox. After him are James M. Bardeen, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, John Houghton, Ronald Drever, Bertrand Halperin, and James Hartle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jeffrey Goldstone ranks 494. Before him are Boris Tatushin, David McCullough, Jenő Hámori, Roy Clark, Tom Price, and Lloyd Price. After him are Ken Berry, Bent Hansen, Basil Heatley, John Cannon, Glenn Corbett, and Colin Davis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jeffrey Goldstone ranks 5,196 out of 8,785. Before him are Bernice Rubens (1923), Andy McNab (1959), John Claudius Loudon (1783), Dennis Wise (1966), Paul Oakenfold (1963), and Brian Bennett (1940). After him are John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873), Janet Simpson (1944), Brian Jacques (1939), Harry Mallin (1892), Duffy (1984), and Joan Greenwood (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Jeffrey Goldstone ranks 86. Before him are Alan Cottrell (1919), Bernard Lovell (1913), Gilbert Walker (1868), Balfour Stewart (1828), Charles Sheffield (1935), and Brian Cox (1968). After him are John Houghton (1931), Ronald Drever (1931), John Pendry (1943), Edward Andrade (1887), and Jess Wade (1988).

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