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John Polkinghorne

1930 - 2021

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John Charlton Polkinghorne (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Polkinghorne has received more than 458,176 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Polkinghorne is the 680th most popular physicist (down from 621st in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,407th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular British Physicist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Polkinghorne ranks 680 out of 851. Before her are Frederick Seitz, John Hopkinson, Max Tegmark, Ursula Franklin, Edith Clarke, and Paul Scherrer. After her are Jan Burgers, Thibault Damour, Isaak Kikoin, Robert R. Wilson, John Iliopoulos, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, John Polkinghorne ranks 425. Before her are Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, Elmira Minita Gordon, Federico Vairo, Hryhorii Chapkis, Rafael Cadenas, and Eino Tamberg. After her are Edoardo Sanguineti, Tony Trabert, Tsutomu Seki, Alan Oppenheimer, Mate Trojanović, and Jacques Parizeau. Among people deceased in 2021, John Polkinghorne ranks 423. Before her are Shankha Ghosh, Peter Lorimer, Vladimir Naumov, Lawrence Weiner, Hryhorii Chapkis, and Norberto Boggio. After her are Tony Trabert, Adrián Campos, Alfonso Sastre, Michael Nesmith, Martin Turnovský, and Antón García Abril.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Polkinghorne ranks 3,795 out of 8,785. Before her are Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Beatrice Webb (1858), Ray Wilson (1934), Ann Todd (1907), and Jane Marcet (1769). After her are Chris Irwin (1942), Elizabeth Spriggs (1929), Paul Kossoff (1950), George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866), Allan Clarke (1942), and Wallace Ford (1898).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Polkinghorne ranks 73. Before her are Francis Hauksbee (1660), Frederick Guthrie (1833), Michael Berry (1941), William Astbury (1898), C. V. Boys (1855), and John Hopkinson (1849). After her are Alfred Ewing (1855), Raymond Gosling (1926), Brandon Carter (1942), Peter Mark Roget (1779), Julian Barbour (1937), and John Aitken (1839).

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