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John C. Baez

1961 - Today

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John Carlos Baez (; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John C. Baez has received more than 229,480 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John C. Baez is the 758th most popular physicist (down from 709th in 2019), the 12,491st most popular biography from United States (down from 12,122nd in 2019) and the 174th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John C. Baez ranks 758 out of 717Before him are Nima Arkani-Hamed, Yash Pal, Herbert Goldstein, Richard A. Muller, Howard Georgi, and Ernest Moniz. After him are Sylvia Fedoruk, Carver Mead, William Penney, Baron Penney, Edward Andrade, Jim Al-Khalili, and Nathan Seiberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, John C. Baez ranks 574Before him are Max Julen, Nikolay Abramov, Julius Kariuki, Tetsuya Totsuka, Tim Meadows, and Sebastiano Nela. After him are Violeta Bermúdez, The Godfather, Ricki Herbert, Werner Koch, Maja Haderlap, and David Thompson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Baez ranks 12,491 out of 18,182Before him are Janet L. Kavandi (1959), Derek Chauvin (1976), Leon Wilkeson (1952), Mark Cerny (1964), Frederick D. Gregory (1941), and Tiffany Darwish (1971). After him are Raphael Sbarge (1965), Kyle Korver (1981), George Newbern (1964), Lil Uzi Vert (1994), Roy Atwell (1878), and Todd Martin (1970).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John C. Baez ranks 174Before him are Norris Bradbury (1909), Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972), Herbert Goldstein (1922), Richard A. Muller (1944), Howard Georgi (1947), and Ernest Moniz (1944). After him are Carver Mead (1934), Paul Ginsparg (1955), Sean M. Carroll (1966), Deborah S. Jin (1968), Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (1993), and Joseph Weber (2000).

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