1915 - 1999
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (Greek: Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος; June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist. Metropolis received his BSc (1937) and PhD in physics (1941, with Robert Mulliken) at the University of Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Metropolis has received more than 171,018 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Metropolis is the 628th most popular physicist (down from 603rd in 2019), the 6,615th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,228th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 628 out of 717. Before him are Alfred Landé, Jan Burgers, Charles Fabry, Ole Jacob Broch, John Hopkinson, and Balthasar van der Pol. After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Frederick Seitz, Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, Alfred Ewing, and Frank Oppenheimer.
1888 - 1976
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 622
1895 - 1981
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 623
1867 - 1945
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 624
1818 - 1889
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 625
1849 - 1898
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 626
1889 - 1959
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 627
1915 - 1999
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 628
1862 - 1916
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 629
1911 - 2008
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 630
1756 - 1832
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 631
1911 - 2011
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 632
1855 - 1935
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 633
1912 - 1985
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 634
Among people born in 1915, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 192. Before him are Anna Schwartz, Eugène Martin, Elio Toaff, Joe Fry, Boris Andreyev, and Raquel Rastenni. After him are Danuta Szaflarska, Olavi Virta, Argemiro, Luise Krüger, Mario Echandi Jiménez, and Alice Faye. Among people deceased in 1999, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 185. Before him are Anahit Tsitsikian, Lester Bowie, Teuvo Aura, Yury Malyshev, Alain Peyrefitte, and João Cabral de Melo Neto. After him are Eric Wolf, Fritzi Burger, Henry Carlsson, Jehan Buhan, Faith Domergue, and Joshua Nkomo.
1915 - 2012
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 186
1915 - 2006
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 187
1915 - 2015
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 188
1915 - 1950
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 189
1915 - 1982
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 190
1915 - 1998
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 191
1915 - 1999
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 192
1915 - 2017
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 193
1915 - 1972
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 194
1915 - 1975
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 195
1915 - 2001
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 196
1915 - 2011
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 197
1915 - 1998
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 198
1926 - 1999
HPI: 46.75
Rank: 179
1941 - 1999
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 180
1912 - 1999
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 181
1941 - 1999
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 182
1925 - 1999
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 183
1920 - 1999
HPI: 46.56
Rank: 184
1915 - 1999
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 185
1923 - 1999
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 186
1910 - 1999
HPI: 46.25
Rank: 187
1917 - 1999
HPI: 46.21
Rank: 188
1912 - 1999
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 189
1924 - 1999
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 190
1917 - 1999
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 191
Among people born in United States, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 6,615 out of 18,182. Before him are Frank Norris (1870), Larry Cohen (1936), Norbert Schemansky (1924), Yokozuna (1966), Tom Byron (1961), and Judith Krantz (1928). After him are Russell Westbrook (1988), Timothy Pickering (1745), Joe E. Brown (1891), Steve Wynn (1942), Julie Garwood (1946), and Patrick Rothfuss (1973).
1870 - 1902
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,609
1936 - 2019
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,610
1924 - 2016
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,611
1966 - 2000
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,612
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,613
1928 - 2019
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,614
1915 - 1999
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 6,615
1988 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 6,616
1745 - 1829
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 6,617
1891 - 1973
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 6,618
1942 - Present
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 6,619
1946 - 2023
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 6,620
1973 - Present
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 6,621
Among physicists born in United States, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 130. Before him are Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Harold Brown (1927), Charles Stark Draper (1901), John C. Slater (1900), and William Higinbotham (1910). After him are Frederick Seitz (1911), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Lee Smolin (1955), Edward Condon (1902), and Leona Woods (1919).
1936 - 2023
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 124
1874 - 1954
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 125
1927 - 2019
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 126
1901 - 1987
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 127
1900 - 1976
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 128
1910 - 1994
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 129
1915 - 1999
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 130
1911 - 2008
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 131
1912 - 1985
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 132
1937 - 2015
HPI: 46.29
Rank: 133
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 134
1902 - 1974
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 135
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 136