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John L. Hall

1934 - Today

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John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John L. Hall has received more than 152,409 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). John L. Hall is the 192nd most popular physicist (up from 193rd in 2019), the 882nd most popular biography from United States (up from 887th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Physicist.

John L. Hall is most famous for his work on the Hall-Petch equation, which is a mathematical formula that relates the elastic modulus of a material to its shear modulus.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John L. Hall ranks 192 out of 717. Before him are Richard E. Taylor, Giorgio Parisi, Gerd Binnig, Yang Chen-Ning, Satyendra Nath Bose, and John Archibald Wheeler. After him are Wolfgang Paul, Frederick Reines, Ilya Frank, Isamu Akasaki, Willis Lamb, and K. Alex Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, John L. Hall ranks 42. Before him are Tarcisio Bertone, Bill Russell, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Alan Arkin, Bill Bixby, and Jacques Anquetil. After him are Diana Wynne Jones, Niklaus Wirth, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Lansana Conté, John Surtees, and Wole Soyinka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John L. Hall ranks 882 out of 18,182. Before him are Mae West (1893), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Jean Harlow (1911), Thelonious Monk (1917), Phil Spector (1939), and Ferid Murad (1936). After him are Sinclair Lewis (1885), Halle Berry (1966), Little Richard (1932), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Al Jarreau (1940), and Meg Ryan (1961).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John L. Hall ranks 36. Before him are Arthur Ashkin (1922), James Cronin (1931), Charles H. Townes (1915), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), and John Archibald Wheeler (1911). After him are Frederick Reines (1918), Willis Lamb (1913), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), David Lee (1931), Roy J. Glauber (1925), and Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930).

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