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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 302,257 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Barbour is the 667th most popular physicist, the 3,949th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 78th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 300k

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  • 44.88

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julian Barbour ranks 667 out of 717. Before him are Max Tegmark, Stanley Mandelstam, Brandon Carter, Antonius van den Broek, Humberto Fernández-Morán, and Vilho Väisälä. After him are Ash Carter, Egon Orowan, Pief Panofsky, Joseph Polchinski, Bernard Lovell, and Vladimir Veksler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Julian Barbour ranks 371. Before him are Guido Vildoso, Peter Fleischmann, Hans Nowak, Tatyana Shchelkanova, Chad Everett, and John Ogdon. After him are Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Delia Derbyshire, Pierluigi Chicca, Claude Allègre, Héctor Facundo, and Klara Guseva.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Julian Barbour ranks 3,949 out of 7,765. Before him are Vivian Woodward (1879), Dexter Fletcher (1966), Jamie Hewlett (1968), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Brian Aherne (1902), and John Sykes (1959). After him are R. J. Mitchell (1895), Morton Betts (1847), Brendan Perry (1959), Wilbert Awdry (1911), Charles Wilkins (1749), and George Graham (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Julian Barbour ranks 78. Before him are John Polkinghorne (1930), John Hopkinson (1849), Alfred Ewing (1855), Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Aitken (1839), and Brandon Carter (1942). After him are Bernard Lovell (1913), Ronald Drever (1931), John Pendry (1943), Raymond Gosling (1926), C. V. Boys (1855), and Jeffrey Goldstone (1933).

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