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John Houghton

1931 - 2020

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Sir John Theodore Houghton (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Houghton has received more than 8,332 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Houghton is the 743rd most popular physicist (down from 612th in 2019), the 5,208th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,414th in 2019) and the 85th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Houghton ranks 743 out of 717. Before her are Abhay Ashtekar, Emil Wolf, Sverker Johansson, Albert-László Barabási, Bertrand Halperin, and Seth Neddermeyer. After her are Mary K. Gaillard, Werner Israel, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Brian Cox, and Udupi Ramachandra Rao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, John Houghton ranks 496. Before her are Arthur Fry, István Hevesi, Tom Wilson, Brook Benton, Andrew Hill, and Martin Milner. After her are Werner Israel, Charlie Logg, Ricardo Vidal, Gene Fullmer, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Among people deceased in 2020, John Houghton ranks 653. Before her are Ann Reinking, Stephen Tataw, Rita Sargsyan, Charley Pride, Bob Kulick, and Blagoja Georgievski. After her are Doris de Agostini, Derek Fowlds, Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, Liang Wudong, MF Doom, and Annie Ross.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Houghton ranks 5,208 out of 7,765. Before her are Norman Whiteside (1965), Michael Park (1966), Allan Wells (1952), Hermione Gingold (1897), Tony Crook (1920), and Denis Healey (1917). After her are Paul Cavanagh (1888), Andy Fairweather Low (1948), Steve Archibald (1956), W. T. Tutte (1917), Jack Wild (1952), and Francis Maitland Balfour (1851).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Houghton ranks 85. Before her are Bernard Lovell (1913), Ronald Drever (1931), John Pendry (1943), Raymond Gosling (1926), C. V. Boys (1855), and Jeffrey Goldstone (1933). After her are Brian Cox (1968), Edward Andrade (1887), and Jess Wade (1988).

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