1930 - 2021
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 433,420 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). John Polkinghorne is the 621st most popular physicist (down from 616th in 2019), the 3,415th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,463rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, John Polkinghorne ranks 621 out of 717. Before her are Charles Stark Draper, Ralph H. Fowler, John C. Slater, Wilhelm Hisinger, Julius Wess, and William Higinbotham. After her are Alfred Landé, Jan Burgers, Charles Fabry, Ole Jacob Broch, John Hopkinson, and Balthasar van der Pol.
1901 - 1987
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 615
1889 - 1944
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 616
1900 - 1976
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 617
1766 - 1852
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 618
1934 - 2007
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 619
1910 - 1994
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 620
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 621
1888 - 1976
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 622
1895 - 1981
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 623
1867 - 1945
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 624
1818 - 1889
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 625
1849 - 1898
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 626
1889 - 1959
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 627
Among people born in 1930, John Polkinghorne ranks 352. Before her are André Lerond, Smail Hamdani, Anatoli Maslyonkin, Tsutomu Seki, James Coco, and Richard Anuszkiewicz. After her are Eino Tamberg, Owen Garriott, Gladys West, Salvatore De Giorgi, Oleg Anofriyev, and Richard Bonynge. Among people deceased in 2021, John Polkinghorne ranks 452. Before her are Ivo Trumbić, Jean-François Stévenin, John Richardson, Leslie Bricusse, John Shelby Spong, and Mary Wilson. After her are Tatyana Tolstaya, Antón García Abril, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Goodwill Zwelithini, Rildo da Costa Menezes, and Padma Sachdev.
1930 - 2018
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 346
1930 - 2017
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 347
1930 - 1988
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 348
1930 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 349
1930 - 1987
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 350
1930 - 2020
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 351
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 352
1930 - 2010
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 353
1930 - 2019
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 354
1930 - Present
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 355
1930 - Present
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 356
1930 - 2018
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 357
1930 - Present
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 358
1935 - 2021
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 446
1944 - 2021
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 447
1934 - 2021
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 448
1931 - 2021
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 449
1931 - 2021
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 450
1944 - 2021
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 451
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 452
1951 - 2021
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 453
1933 - 2021
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 454
1938 - 2021
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 455
1948 - 2021
HPI: 46.69
Rank: 456
1942 - 2021
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 457
1940 - 2021
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 458
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Polkinghorne ranks 3,415 out of 7,765. Before her are Isabella Beeton (1836), Alan Ball Jr. (1945), Alan White (1949), Emil Voigt (1883), Liam Howlett (1971), and Colin Salmon (1962). After her are Ian Hunter (1939), Johnny Haynes (1934), Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Ireen Sheer (1949), Lisa Stansfield (1966), and Joseph Noel Paton (1821).
1836 - 1865
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 3,409
1945 - 2007
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 3,410
1949 - 2022
HPI: 46.83
Rank: 3,411
1883 - 1973
HPI: 46.82
Rank: 3,412
1971 - Present
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 3,413
1962 - Present
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 3,414
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 3,415
1939 - Present
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 3,416
1934 - 2005
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 3,417
1880 - 1957
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 3,418
1949 - Present
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 3,419
1966 - Present
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 3,420
1821 - 1901
HPI: 46.79
Rank: 3,421
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Polkinghorne ranks 72. Before her are C. P. Snow (1905), John D. Barrow (1952), John Robison (1739), John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After her are John Hopkinson (1849), Alfred Ewing (1855), Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Aitken (1839), Brandon Carter (1942), and Julian Barbour (1937).
1905 - 1980
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 66
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 67
1739 - 1805
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 68
1894 - 1954
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 69
1898 - 1961
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 70
1889 - 1944
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 71
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 72
1849 - 1898
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 73
1855 - 1935
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 74
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 75
1839 - 1919
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 76
1942 - Present
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 77
1937 - Present
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 78