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Paul Davies

1946 - Today

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Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies in Chapman University in California. He previously held academic appointments in the University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Davies has received more than 484,308 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Paul Davies is the 557th most popular physicist (down from 505th in 2019), the 2,694th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,437th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Paul Davies by language

Over the past year Paul Davies has had the most page views in the with 47,197 views, followed by Spanish (6,090), and Italian (3,568). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (108.12%), Persian (62.82%), and Azerbaijani (50.25%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Davies ranks 557 out of 851. Before him are Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georg Hermann Quincke, Albert Betz, Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, and John G. Trump. After him are Joseph Larmor, Pierre Weiss, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, and Emil Warburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Paul Davies ranks 378. Before him are Gitte Hænning, Christophe Pierre, Nicola Piovani, Ognyan Gerdzhikov, Dennis Dugan, and Wolfgang Kleff. After him are Zhang Dejiang, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, John Barnard, Katia Ricciarelli, Hayley Mills, and Gregory Hines.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Davies ranks 2,694 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Brown (1942), John Florio (1553), Glen Matlock (1956), Jack Taylor (1930), Israel Zangwill (1864), and Ron Atkinson (1939). After him are Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871), Edward Colston (1636), Eric Ambler (1909), Samuel Morland (1625), Jimmy Gardner (1924), and Asser (900).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Paul Davies ranks 59. Before him are John Leslie (1766), William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), and C. P. Snow (1905). After him are Joseph Larmor (1857), James David Forbes (1809), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), and John Lennard-Jones (1894).

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