PHYSICIST

Mildred Dresselhaus

1930 - 2017

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Mildred Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017), known as the "Queen of Carbon Science", was an American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist. She was an institute professor and professor of both physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also served as the president of the American Physical Society, the chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the director of science in the US Department of Energy under the Bill Clinton Government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mildred Dresselhaus has received more than 446,809 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mildred Dresselhaus is the 431st most popular physicist (up from 516th in 2019), the 2,960th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,589th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 431 out of 851. Before her are Ludvig Lorenz, Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Philip Morrison, and Douglas Hofstadter. After her are Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, and Charles Galton Darwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 177. Before her are Mordechai Gur, Uladzimir Karatkievich, Israel Kirzner, Yves Rocher, Sa'dun Hammadi, and Frunzik Mkrtchyan. After her are Robert Culp, Frank McCourt, Anatoly Lukyanov, Rudolf E. Kálmán, Thomas P. Stafford, and María Elena Walsh. Among people deceased in 2017, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 155. Before her are Umberto Lenzi, Frank Vincent, Richard F. Gordon Jr., William Peter Blatty, Claude Rich, and Ludmila Belousova. After her are Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Ulf Stark, Étienne Tshisekedi, Kate Millett, Viktor Gorbatko, and Maryam Mirzakhani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 2,960 out of 20,380. Before her are Elbridge Gerry (1744), Stephen Foster (1826), Jennifer Jason Leigh (1962), Charles Tilly (1929), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), and Benjamin Tucker (1854). After her are Anne Meara (1929), Susan Flannery (1939), Robert Culp (1930), Ezzard Charles (1921), Frank McCourt (1930), and Bo Derek (1956).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 90. Before her are Leonard Susskind (1940), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Philip Morrison (1915), and Douglas Hofstadter (1945). After her are Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Alan Guth (1947), and Clarence Zener (1905).

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