1940 - Today
Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, Professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. He was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Susskind has received more than 1,217,128 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Leonard Susskind is the 393rd most popular physicist (down from 368th in 2019), the 2,753rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,534th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Leonard Susskind ranks 393 out of 717. Before him are Louis Poinsot, Friedrich Paschen, John Henry Poynting, Louis Paul Cailletet, Duncan Haldane, and Hendrik Casimir. After him are Jacob Bekenstein, Christopher Polhem, Hantaro Nagaoka, William Watson, Georgy Flyorov, and Friedrich Ernst Dorn.
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 387
1865 - 1947
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 388
1852 - 1914
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 389
1832 - 1913
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 390
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 391
1909 - 2000
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 392
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 393
1947 - 2015
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 394
1661 - 1751
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 395
1865 - 1950
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 396
1715 - 1787
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 397
1913 - 1990
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 398
1848 - 1916
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 399
Among people born in 1940, Leonard Susskind ranks 156. Before him are Peter Mutharika, John Grinder, Enrico Bombieri, Franz Müntefering, Wilma Rudolph, and Jill St. John. After him are Petru Lucinschi, Luis Cubilla, Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Havlicek, and Jan Stráský.
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 150
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 151
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 152
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 153
1940 - 1994
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 154
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 155
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 156
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 157
1940 - 2013
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 158
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 159
1940 - 1996
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 160
1940 - 2019
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 161
1940 - 2019
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 162
Among people born in United States, Leonard Susskind ranks 2,753 out of 18,182. Before him are Edgar Snow (1905), Tracy Morgan (1968), Ronald Lauder (1944), Jill St. John (1940), Fritz Leiber (1910), and Richard Thorpe (1896). After him are George W. De Long (1844), Mike Pompeo (1963), William Labov (1927), Henry Wilson (1812), Billy Milligan (1955), and Charles Tilly (1929).
1905 - 1972
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 2,747
1968 - Present
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 2,748
1944 - Present
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,749
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,750
1910 - 1992
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2,751
1896 - 1991
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,752
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,753
1844 - 1881
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,754
1963 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,755
1927 - Present
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 2,756
1812 - 1875
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 2,757
1955 - 2014
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,758
1929 - 2008
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,759
Among physicists born in United States, Leonard Susskind ranks 83. Before him are Carl Wieman (1951), Edwin H. Land (1909), Robert W. Wood (1868), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Chester Carlson (1906), and Philip Abelson (1913). After him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Grote Reber (1911), and Alan Sokal (1955).
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 77
1909 - 1991
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 78
1868 - 1955
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 79
1914 - 1997
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 80
1906 - 1968
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 81
1913 - 2004
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 83
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 84
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 85
1922 - 2015
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 86
1959 - Present
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 87
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 88
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 89