1905 - 1950
Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Guthe Jansky has received more than 204,953 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Karl Guthe Jansky is the 338th most popular physicist (down from 298th in 2019), the 2,114th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,690th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Karl Guthe Jansky ranks 338 out of 717. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Leopold Infeld, Vladimir Shukhov, George Francis FitzGerald, Moritz von Jacobi, and Manfred von Ardenne. After him are Shuji Nakamura, Walter A. Shewhart, Ami Argand, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Heinrich Geißler, and Donna Strickland.
1824 - 1914
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 332
1898 - 1968
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 333
1853 - 1939
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 334
1851 - 1901
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 335
1801 - 1874
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 336
1907 - 1997
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 337
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 338
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 339
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 340
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 341
1683 - 1744
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 342
1814 - 1879
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 343
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 344
Among people born in 1905, Karl Guthe Jansky ranks 82. Before him are George Kelly, Mikio Naruse, Jigme Wangchuck, Angelo Schiavio, Takeo Fukuda, and Pedro Petrone. After him are Ludwig Fischer, Paul Nizan, Guy Mollet, Pierre Gemayel, Federica Montseny, and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Among people deceased in 1950, Karl Guthe Jansky ranks 54. Before him are Alfred Korzybski, Ryuzo Shimizu, Charles Koechlin, Vasil Kolarov, Fevzi Çakmak, and Agnes Smedley. After him are Rafael Sabatini, Adam Rainer, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Henry L. Stimson, Nikolai Voznesensky, and Walter Huston.
1905 - 1967
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 76
1905 - 1969
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 77
1905 - 1952
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 78
1905 - 1990
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 79
1905 - 1995
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 80
1905 - 1964
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 81
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 82
1905 - 1947
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 83
1905 - 1940
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 84
1905 - 1975
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 85
1905 - 1984
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 86
1905 - 1994
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 87
1905 - 1977
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 88
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 48
1902 - 1950
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 49
1867 - 1950
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 50
1877 - 1950
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 51
1876 - 1950
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 52
1892 - 1950
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 53
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 54
1875 - 1950
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 55
1899 - 1950
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 56
1874 - 1950
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 57
1867 - 1950
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 58
1903 - 1950
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 59
1883 - 1950
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 60
Among people born in United States, Karl Guthe Jansky ranks 2,114 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Ballard (1942), Merce Cunningham (1919), Steve Morse (1954), Charles M. Rice (1952), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), and Leonard Kleinrock (1934). After him are Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henrietta Lacks (1920), Saul Bass (1920), Jane Jacobs (1916), Kevin Mitnick (1963), and Michael Emerson (1954).
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,108
1919 - 2009
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,109
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,110
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,111
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 2,112
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,113
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,114
1885 - 1973
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,115
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,116
1920 - 1996
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,117
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,118
1963 - 2023
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,119
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,120
Among physicists born in United States, Karl Guthe Jansky ranks 68. Before him are John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Steven Chu (1948), Nathan Rosen (1909), John Mauchly (1907), and Frank Wilczek (1951). After him are Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Edward Witten (1951), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Nick Holonyak (1928), and Edwin Hall (1855).
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 62
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 64
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 65
1907 - 1980
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 66
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 67
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 69
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 70
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 71
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 72
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74