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Joan Feynman

1927 - 2020

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Joan Feynman (March 31, 1927 – July 21, 2020) was an American astrophysicist. 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 326,160 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Feynman is the 595th most popular physicist, the 6,006th most popular biography from United States and the 120th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 330k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joan Feynman ranks 595 out of 717Before her are Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Giovanni Giorgi, Henry Augustus Rowland, John Lennard-Jones, and Alvin M. Weinberg. After her are Michael Fisher, Lawrence M. Krauss, William Astbury, Harold Agnew, Stuart Hameroff, and Hertha Sponer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Joan Feynman ranks 275Before her are Pierre Aubert, Cesar Chavez, Joachim Fuchsberger, Thorkild Hansen, Arthur Cohn, and Alex Katz. After her are Estelle Parsons, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Tore Svensson, Carmen Basilio, Alvin Sargent, and Bill Daily. Among people deceased in 2020, Joan Feynman ranks 361Before her are Inna Makarova, Saeb Erekat, Brent Scowcroft, János Göröcs, Justus Dahinden, and Yuri Bondarev. After her are Abdurrahim El-Keib, Mahmoud Jibril, Tom Lister Jr., Giorgi Shengelaia, Diane di Prima, and Duje Bonačić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Feynman ranks 6,006 out of 18,182Before her are Herbie Mann (1930), Lana Clarkson (1962), Thad Jones (1923), Elisabeth Moss (1982), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), and Alvin M. Weinberg (1915). After her are Rachel Bilson (1981), Larry Fine (1902), Saoirse Ronan (1994), Chaim Potok (1929), Lynn Conway (1938), and Joe Lando (1961).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Joan Feynman ranks 120Before her are Edith Clarke (1883), Frank J. Tipler (1947), Gordon Gould (1920), Bill Nye (1955), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), and Alvin M. Weinberg (1915). After her are Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Harold Agnew (1921), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), and Harold Brown (1927).