PHYSICIST

Michael Fisher

1931 - 2021

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Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. He was the Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics at Cornell University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Fisher has received more than 123,830 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Michael Fisher is the 713th most popular physicist (down from 596th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Trinidadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Michael Fisher ranks 713 out of 851. Before him are Stanley Mandelstam, Ernst Stueckelberg, Elliott H. Lieb, Albert W. Hull, Nicholas Metropolis, and Bill Nye. After him are Juris Upatnieks, Raymond Gosling, Tom Kibble, Brandon Carter, Lisa Randall, and Arthur Wightman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Michael Fisher ranks 452. Before him are D. J. Fontana, Mirja Hietamies, Karan Singh, Antonio Gamoneda, Szeto Wah, and Algis Budrys. After him are Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Anton Moravčík, Christopher George, Chiharu Igaya, Alfred W. Crosby, and Pierre Chambon. Among people deceased in 2021, Michael Fisher ranks 468. Before him are Giuseppe Galante, Abubakar Shekau, Norm Macdonald, Jan Sokol, Casimir Oyé-Mba, and Peter Mark Richman. After him are Orlando Martínez, Jan Jindra, Viktor Putyatin, John Richardson, Martín Pando, and Jiří Čadek.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Michael Fisher ranks 15 out of 71. Before him are Dwight Yorke (1971), Paula-Mae Weekes (1958), Basdeo Panday (1933), Stokely Carmichael (1941), Steven Pressfield (1943), and Edmundo Ros (1910). After him are Stephen Mallory (1813), Geoffrey Holder (1930), A. N. R. Robinson (1926), C. L. R. James (1901), Hasely Crawford (1950), and George Padmore (1903).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among physicists born in Trinidad and Tobago, Michael Fisher ranks 1. 

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