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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

1899 - 1980

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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck has received more than 193,942 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). John Hasbrouck Van Vleck is the 261st most popular physicist (up from 263rd in 2019), the 1,062nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,292nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Physicist.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 261 out of 851. Before him are Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, Otto Robert Frisch, Rainer Weiss, Syukuro Manabe, and Max Delbrück. After him are Julian Schwinger, John Cockcroft, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Daniel Rutherford, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Allan MacLeod Cormack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 38. Before him are Gloria Swanson, Charles Laughton, Ferhat Abbas, Jean Moulin, Georg von Békésy, and Suzanne Lenglen. After him are Leo Strauss, Bronislav Kaminski, Chang Myon, Lucio Fontana, Macfarlane Burnet, and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Among people deceased in 1980, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 47. Before him are Marian Rejewski, Lewis Milestone, Marcelo Caetano, Mae West, Vinicius de Moraes, and Gustav Wagner. After him are Kim Jae-gyu, Raoul Walsh, Pascual Jordan, V. V. Giri, Robert Whittaker, and Mohammad Hatta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 1,062 out of 20,380. Before him are Groucho Marx (1890), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), Joyce Carol Oates (1938), Alicia Keys (1981), Nellie Bly (1864), and James Jones (1921). After him are Julian Schwinger (1918), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), L. Frank Baum (1856), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Philip Zimbardo (1933), and Jack Kemp (1935).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 55. Before him are Frederick Reines (1918), Burton Richter (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), and Philip Warren Anderson (1923). After him are Julian Schwinger (1918), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), and William Daniel Phillips (1948).

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