PHYSICIST

Joan Feynman

1927 - 2020

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Joan Feynman (March 31, 1927 – July 21, 2020) was an American astrophysicist and space physicist. She made contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields, sun-Earth relations, and magnetospheric physics. In particular, Feynman was known for developing an understanding of the origin of auroras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Feynman has received more than 361,042 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joan Feynman is the 596th most popular physicist (down from 595th in 2019), the 5,591st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,994th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 56.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joan Feynman ranks 596 out of 851. Before her are Sergey Kapitsa, John Robison, Prosper-René Blondlot, Georg Adolf Erman, Wallace Clement Sabine, and Clyde Cowan. After her are Seth Neddermeyer, Bruno Zumino, Toshiko Yuasa, Heinrich Kayser, Alfred Kleiner, and Robert H. Dicke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Joan Feynman ranks 262. Before her are Peter Dickinson, Mathé Altéry, Martin Špegelj, László Paskai, Cesar Chavez, and Aušra Augustinavičiūtė. After her are Elisabeth Söderström, Nikola Kljusev, Herbert W. Franke, Carmen Basilio, Nguyễn Thị Bình, and Alex Katz. Among people deceased in 2020, Joan Feynman ranks 338. Before her are Neda Arnerić, Oskar Fischer, Sugathakumari, Luis Eduardo Aute, Gary Peacock, and Ewa Demarczyk. After her are Rika Zaraï, Paul Goma, Patrick Devedjian, Genesis P-Orridge, René Felber, and Marcello Abbado.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Feynman ranks 5,591 out of 20,380. Before her are David Proval (1942), Victor Sen Yung (1914), Sylvia Miles (1924), Bill Vukovich (1918), Charlaine Harris (1951), and Eddie Tolan (1908). After her are Lou Gramm (1950), Frances Lee McCain (1943), John Dall (1920), Branscombe Richmond (1955), Lee Radziwill (1933), and Sally Kellerman (1937).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Joan Feynman ranks 119. Before her are Frank J. Tipler (1947), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), Charles W. Misner (1932), William D. Coolidge (1873), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), and Clyde Cowan (1919). After her are Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), and Harry Daghlian (1921).

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