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Julian Barbour

1937 - Today

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Julian Barbour (; born 1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science. Since receiving his PhD degree on the foundations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity at the University of Cologne in 1968, Barbour has supported himself and his family without an academic position, working part-time as a translator (although he has an Oxford University email address and his research has been funded, for example by a FQXi grant). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julian Barbour has received more than 320,020 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Julian Barbour is the 730th most popular physicist (down from 667th in 2019), the 4,380th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,941st in 2019) and the 78th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julian Barbour ranks 730 out of 851. Before him are Nikolay Umov, John Joly, Howard P. Robertson, Harvey Fletcher, Rudolf Haag, and Henrik Svensmark. After him are C. R. Hagen, Joseph Polchinski, Walter Gordon, Raja Ramanna, Derek J. de Solla Price, and Seymour Benzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Julian Barbour ranks 442. Before him are François Bonlieu, Carlos Campos, Gorilla Monsoon, Louis Neefs, Walter Graf, and Joseph P. Allen. After him are Martin Litchfield West, C. R. Hagen, Yuriy Poyarkov, Garrett Morris, Svante Thuresson, and Pedro Casado.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Julian Barbour ranks 4,380 out of 8,785. Before him are Francis Willughby (1635), H. J. R. Murray (1868), Daisy Ridley (1992), Emma Kirkby (1949), Neil Bartlett (1932), and David Brabham (1965). After him are William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Richard Eyre (1943), Robert Morison (1620), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), James Hogg (1770), and William Michael Rossetti (1829).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Julian Barbour ranks 78. Before him are John Hopkinson (1849), John Polkinghorne (1930), Alfred Ewing (1855), Raymond Gosling (1926), Brandon Carter (1942), and Peter Mark Roget (1779). After him are John Aitken (1839), Alan Cottrell (1919), Bernard Lovell (1913), Gilbert Walker (1868), Balfour Stewart (1828), and Charles Sheffield (1935).

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