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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 425,454 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Mildred Dresselhaus is the 516th most popular physicist (up from 555th in 2019), the 4,601st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,046th in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 516 out of 717Before her are Christian Mayer, Ira Sprague Bowen, Macedonio Melloni, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, August Beer, and Leopoldo Nobili. After her are Carlo Rovelli, Robert H. Dicke, Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, Lester Germer, and Max Wien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 269Before her are Mordechai Gur, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Philip Bosco, Jesús Garay, and Guy Béart. After her are William R. Pogue, Hank Mobley, Jan Olszewski, Robert Prosky, Egon Klepsch, and Rolf Hoppe. Among people deceased in 2017, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 224Before her are Svend Asmussen, Klaus Huber, Jiří Bělohlávek, Gorden Kaye, Haruo Nakajima, and Leo Kinnunen. After her are Imre Földi, András Kovács, Hal Moore, Ivo Brešan, Gisèle Casadesus, and Tony Atkinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 4,601 out of 18,182Before her are Alicia Silverstone (1976), Matt Reeves (1966), Charley Paddock (1900), Mercedes Ruehl (1948), Oliver North (1943), and Johnny "Guitar" Watson (1935). After her are Pink Anderson (1900), Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Lee Wallard (1910), Mary Blair (1911), Norman Finkelstein (1953), and Mary Alice (1941).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Mildred Dresselhaus ranks 100Before her are Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Richard C. Tolman (1881), John G. Trump (1907), and Ira Sprague Bowen (1898). After her are Robert H. Dicke (1916), Clarence Zener (1905), Lester Germer (1896), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), and Brian Greene (1963).