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Leo Kadanoff

1937 - 2015

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Leo Philip Kadanoff (January 14, 1937 – October 26, 2015) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics (emeritus from 2004) at the University of Chicago and a former president of the American Physical Society (APS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Kadanoff has received more than 141,111 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Kadanoff is the 627th most popular physicist (up from 635th in 2019), the 6,183rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,766th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leo Kadanoffs by language

Over the past year Leo Kadanoff has had the most page views in the with 13,372 views, followed by Chinese (2,838), and Japanese (1,432). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Asturian (99.59%), Czech (89.88%), and Egyptian Arabic (89.82%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leo Kadanoff ranks 627 out of 851. Before him are Lawrence M. Krauss, Sumio Iijima, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Norris Bradbury, Michael Green, and Antonius van den Broek. After him are Walter Kaufmann, Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Kittel, Barys Kit, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, and Francis Hauksbee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Leo Kadanoff ranks 328. Before him are Loretta Swit, Manga, Grace Bumbry, Ramsewak Shankar, Nadia Gamal, and Jack Nitzsche. After him are Regimantas Adomaitis, Dawn Fraser, Vasyl Durdynets, Manfred Krug, Sandy Dennis, and Ezio Pascutti. Among people deceased in 2015, Leo Kadanoff ranks 281. Before him are William Wakefield Baum, Gamal El-Ghitani, Kayahan, Joseph Engelberger, Jayakanthan, and Peter de Klerk. After him are Milorad Milutinović, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Ibrahim Biogradlić, Wayne Rogers, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, and Helmut Dietl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leo Kadanoff ranks 6,183 out of 20,380. Before him are Matthew Settle (1969), Robert Greene (1959), Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820), Ottis Toole (1947), Robert Richardson (1955), and David Miller (1909). After him are Franchot Tone (1905), John Flynn (1932), Bobby Helms (1933), Jason Becker (1969), Lori Loughlin (1964), and Lewis Arquette (1935).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leo Kadanoff ranks 132. Before him are Harold Brown (1927), Harold Agnew (1921), Grote Reber (1911), Brian Greene (1963), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), and Norris Bradbury (1909). After 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).

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