PHYSICIST

Joseph Polchinski

1954 - 2018

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Polchinski has received more than 278,310 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Polchinski is the 731st most popular physicist (down from 671st in 2019), the 8,720th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,792nd in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Polchinski ranks 731 out of 851. Before him are Howard P. Robertson, Harvey Fletcher, Rudolf Haag, Henrik Svensmark, Julian Barbour, and C. R. Hagen. After him are Walter Gordon, Raja Ramanna, Derek J. de Solla Price, Seymour Benzer, John Aitken, and Gersh Budker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Joseph Polchinski ranks 430. Before him are Michael Shermer, Jouko Törmänen, Théophile Abega, Andrei Sannikov, Zach Grenier, and Carly Fiorina. After him are Enrique Saura, Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân, Victor Ciorbea, Wolfgang Sidka, Christoph Ransmayr, and George Galloway. Among people deceased in 2018, Joseph Polchinski ranks 409. Before him are David Goodall, Kate Wilhelm, Alfredo del Águila, William Blum, Milunka Lazarević, and Daniel Robin. After him are Aleksei Paramonov, Mateja Matevski, Gardner Dozois, László Fábián, Diana Der Hovanessian, and George Deukmejian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Polchinski ranks 8,720 out of 20,380. Before him are Machito (1912), Doug Emhoff (1964), Hilarie Burton (1982), Alice Davenport (1864), Roky Erickson (1947), and Tom Tryon (1926). After him are Katherine Moennig (1977), Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), Dee Brown (1908), Ted Kaufman (1939), James Cruze (1884), and Tom Vilsack (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Joseph Polchinski ranks 161. Before him are Bill Nye (1955), Lisa Randall (1962), Arthur Wightman (1922), Howard P. Robertson (1903), Harvey Fletcher (1884), and C. R. Hagen (1937). After him are Seymour Benzer (1921), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Frank Benford (1883), Conyers Herring (1914), Robert Marshak (1916), and Sidney Coleman (1937).

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