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John N. Bahcall

1934 - 2005

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John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 – August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist and the Richard Black Professor for Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John N. Bahcall has received more than 105,896 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John N. Bahcall is the 521st most popular astronomer (down from 488th in 2019), the 9,319th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,575th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, John N. Bahcall ranks 521 out of 644. Before her are John Broughton, Hans-Emil Schuster, Agnes Mary Clerke, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Minoru Honda, and María Teresa Ruiz. After her are Erika Böhm-Vitense, Korado Korlević, Okuro Oikawa, Roy A. Tucker, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, and William Christie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, John N. Bahcall ranks 466. Before her are Sylvia Syms, Ruskin Bond, Gerry Hitchens, Mark Strand, Hans Mild, and Östen Warnerbring. After her are István Csurka, Elías Querejeta, Ayla Erduran, Michael Dunn, Robert Stigwood, and Evy Berggren. Among people deceased in 2005, John N. Bahcall ranks 300. Before her are M. Scott Peck, James Stockdale, David Lange, Keith Andes, Long John Baldry, and Bruno Manser. After her are Paul Halla, Derek Bailey, Aleksandar Atanacković, Carl Forssell, Enric Gensana, and Luis Taruc.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John N. Bahcall ranks 9,319 out of 20,380. Before her are Jesse Mashburn (1933), Slater Martin (1925), Hillary Scott (1983), Ben Foster (1980), Huell Howser (1945), and Ron Gilbert (1964). After her are Taylor Sheridan (1970), Una Merkel (1903), Elizabeth Ryan (1892), Rosemary Casals (1948), Jonathan Kellerman (1949), and Brett Ratner (1969).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, John N. Bahcall ranks 99. Before her are Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), William Wilson Morgan (1906), DeLisle Stewart (1870), and Edwin Foster Coddington (1870). After her are Roy A. Tucker (1951), Edward S. Holden (1846), Marc Aaronson (1950), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Charles Augustus Young (1834), and Lawrence H. Aller (1913).

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