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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 114,991 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Fisher is the 596th most popular physicist (up from 620th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Trinidadian Physicist.

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  • 20

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  • 4.80

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Michael Fisher ranks 596 out of 717. Before him are Georges-Louis Le Sage, Giovanni Giorgi, Henry Augustus Rowland, John Lennard-Jones, Alvin M. Weinberg, and Joan Feynman. After him are Lawrence M. Krauss, William Astbury, Harold Agnew, Stuart Hameroff, Hertha Sponer, and Heinrich Kayser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Michael Fisher ranks 313. Before him are John Norman, Arne Selmosson, Zakaria Tamer, Sonny Clark, Paulo Maluf, and Bob Shaw. After him are Hanoi Hannah, Bernard Panafieu, Marshall Applewhite, Imrich Stacho, Redha Malek, and Mamie Van Doren. Among people deceased in 2021, Michael Fisher ranks 427. Before him are Vladimir Korenev, Adrián Campos, Juan Masnik, Boško Abramović, Michael R. Clifford, and Cristóbal Halffter. After him are Kadir Topbaş, Alberto Grimaldi, Mehdi Cerbah, Milan Bandić, Petr Kellner, and Clarence Williams III.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Michael Fisher ranks 9 out of 64. Before him are Imran N. Hosein (1942), Billy Ocean (1950), Paula-Mae Weekes (1958), George Maxwell Richards (1931), Dwight Yorke (1971), and Nicki Minaj (1982). After him are A. N. R. Robinson (1926), Edmundo Ros (1910), Stokely Carmichael (1941), Steven Pressfield (1943), Keith Rowley (1949), and Geoffrey Holder (1930).

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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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