1940 - Today
Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940) is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include 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 974,402 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Leonard Susskind is the 368th most popular physicist (up from 387th in 2019), the 2,535th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,506th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Leonard Susskind ranks 368 out of 721. Before him are Robert W. Wood, Louis Poinsot, Hans Kramers, Ami Argand, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Vladimir Chelomey. After him are Homi J. Bhabha, George Uhlenbeck, Johann Andreas Segner, Ralph Asher Alpher, Johannes Franz Hartmann, and Oskar Klein.
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 362
1777 - 1859
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 363
1894 - 1952
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 364
1750 - 1803
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 365
1803 - 1879
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 366
1914 - 1984
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 367
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 368
1909 - 1966
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 369
1900 - 1988
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 370
1704 - 1777
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 371
1921 - 2007
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 372
1865 - 1936
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 373
1894 - 1977
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 374
Among people born in 1940, Leonard Susskind ranks 151. Before him are Tony Sheridan, Ruth Dreifuss, Sadaharu Oh, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Parks, and Luis Cubilla. After him are Nicola Di Bari, Silvio Marzolini, Pedro Rodríguez, Claire Bretécher, Christoph Eschenbach, and Jan Stráský.
1940 - 2013
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 145
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 146
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 147
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 148
1940 - 2017
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 149
1940 - 2013
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 150
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 151
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 152
1940 - 2020
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 153
1940 - 1971
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 154
1940 - 2020
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 155
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 156
1940 - 2019
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 157
Among people born in United States, Leonard Susskind ranks 2,535 out of 15,968. Before him are Michael DeBakey (1908), Nelson Algren (1909), Harvey Cushing (1869), Esther Williams (1921), Ben Johnson (1918), and Paul Rudd (1969). After him are James M. Cain (1892), William Labov (1927), Paul Robeson (1898), David Strathairn (1949), Neil Postman (1931), and Henry Silva (1928).
1908 - 2008
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 2,529
1909 - 1981
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 2,530
1869 - 1939
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 2,531
1921 - 2013
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 2,532
1918 - 1996
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 2,533
1969 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 2,534
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 2,535
1892 - 1977
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 2,536
1927 - Present
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 2,537
1898 - 1976
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 2,538
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 2,539
1931 - 2003
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 2,540
1928 - Present
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 2,541
Among physicists born in United States, Leonard Susskind ranks 73. Before him are Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Douglas Osheroff (1945), Edward Witten (1951), Edwin Hall (1855), Steven Chu (1948), and Robert W. Wood (1868). After him are Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Carl Wieman (1951), Nick Holonyak (1928), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), and Lyman Spitzer (1914).
1891 - 1967
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 67
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 68
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 69
1855 - 1938
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 70
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 71
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 72
1940 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 73
1921 - 2007
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 74
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 75
1928 - Present
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 76
1901 - 1967
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 77
1950 - Present
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 78
1914 - 1997
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 79