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Lawrence M. Krauss

1954 - Today

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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University (ASU), Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence M. Krauss has received more than 1,130,265 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Lawrence M. Krauss is the 622nd most popular physicist (down from 597th in 2019), the 6,086th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,035th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 55.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lawrence M. Krauss ranks 622 out of 851. Before him are Harold Agnew, Mario Livio, Grote Reber, Walther Müller, Brian Greene, and John Lennard-Jones. After him are Sumio Iijima, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Norris Bradbury, Michael Green, Antonius van den Broek, and Leo Kadanoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Lawrence M. Krauss ranks 281. Before him are Spagna, Bob Rock, Ricardo Ferretti, Lance Kinsey, Mustafa Barghouti, and Idrissa Ouédraogo. After him are Michael Sembello, Joe Bryant, Eliseo Salazar, Keith Campbell, Joep Lange, and Jonas Kazlauskas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence M. Krauss ranks 6,086 out of 20,380. Before him are E. E. Smith (1890), Donald Johanson (1943), Rene Bond (1950), Steven Williams (1949), Charley Borah (1906), and Ethelda Bleibtrey (1902). After him are Michael Sembello (1954), Timothy Zahn (1951), Mike D'Antoni (1951), Glenn Morris (1912), Chico Hamilton (1921), and Norman Spinrad (1940).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Lawrence M. Krauss ranks 130. Before him are James Hansen (1941), Harry Daghlian (1921), Harold Brown (1927), Harold Agnew (1921), Grote Reber (1911), and Brian Greene (1963). After him are Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Victor J. Stenger (1935), and Gerald Guralnik (1936).

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