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Lee Smolin

1955 - Today

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Lee Smolin (; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Smolin's 2006 book The Trouble with Physics criticized string theory as a viable scientific theory. He has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, in particular the approach known as loop quantum gravity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Smolin has received more than 606,773 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 27 in 2019). Lee Smolin is the 654th most popular physicist (down from 638th in 2019), the 6,704th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,972nd in 2019) and the 139th most popular American Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lee Smolin ranks 654 out of 851. Before him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Julius Wess, Hertha Sponer, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, César Lattes, and Michael Berry. After him are Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, Orest Khvolson, Adriaan Fokker, Hans Reissner, and Mordehai Milgrom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Lee Smolin ranks 287. Before him are Heidi Hautala, Kang Kyung-wha, Avraham Burg, Bill Condon, Jesús María Zamora, and Toshio Suzuki. After him are Raymond Ndong Sima, Howie Mandel, Ali Laarayedh, Janice Dickinson, Serge Telle, and Abdelkrim Merry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Smolin ranks 6,704 out of 20,380. Before him are Elliot See (1927), Jeremy Davies (1969), David Amram (1930), John List (1925), Tom Kane (1962), and Eydie Gormé (1928). After him are Galo Plaza (1906), F. Holland Day (1864), Hugo Benioff (1899), Bobby Unser (1934), David Hungate (1948), and Harold Gould (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Lee Smolin ranks 139. Before him are Charles Kittel (1916), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Charles Stark Draper (1901), and William Higinbotham (1910). After him are Charles H. Bennett (1943), Ash Carter (1954), John C. Slater (1900), Frederick Seitz (1911), Edith Clarke (1883), and Robert R. Wilson (1914).

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