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Nergis Mavalvala

1968 - Today

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Nergis Mavalvala (born 1968) is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also the dean of the university's school of science. She was previously the Associate Head of the university's Department of Physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nergis Mavalvala has received more than 307,692 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nergis Mavalvala is the 845th most popular physicist (down from 772nd in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Pakistani Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nergis Mavalvala ranks 845 out of 851. Before her are Katherine Freese, Conny Aerts, Victoria Kaspi, Rohini Godbole, Ashoke Sen, and Gabriele Hegerl. After her are Laura Mersini-Houghton, Jess Wade, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Philip Kim, and Joseph Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Nergis Mavalvala ranks 900. Before her are Falilat Ogunkoya, Dennis Scott, Kazuaki Yoshinaga, Osamu Chiba, Susan Cain, and Kiyoto Furushima. After her are Mike Barrowman, Irina Khudoroshkina, Hayato Okanaka, Kendall Gill, Joy Fawcett, and Tomoaki Sano.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Nergis Mavalvala ranks 185 out of 217. Before her are Maryam Nawaz (1973), Fazlullah (1974), Inzamam-ul-Haq (1970), Ghazala Javed (1988), Qandeel Baloch (1990), and Hussain Shah (1964). After her are Nadeem Aslam (1966), Maleeha Lodhi (1952), Dilshad Vadsaria (1985), Mahira Khan (1984), Shoaib Akhtar (1975), and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (1980).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Pakistan

Among physicists born in Pakistan, Nergis Mavalvala ranks 4. Before her are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Abdus Salam (1926), and Yash Pal (1926).

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