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Philip Abelson

1913 - 2004

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Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Abelson has received more than 109,403 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Philip Abelson is the 386th most popular physicist (up from 429th in 2019), the 2,670th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,238th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Philip Abelson ranks 386 out of 717Before him are Robert W. Wood, Lyman Spitzer, Chester Carlson, Johann Andreas Segner, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval. After him are Louis Poinsot, Friedrich Paschen, John Henry Poynting, Louis Paul Cailletet, Duncan Haldane, and Hendrik Casimir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Philip Abelson ranks 110Before him are Alfred Bester, Wols, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Maurice Wilkes, Hélio Gracie, and Yasuo Suzuki. After him are Trevor Howard, Lucien Goldmann, Elisaveta Bykova, Georgy Flyorov, Véra Clouzot, and Nikolai Amosov. Among people deceased in 2004, Philip Abelson ranks 89Before him are Fay Wray, Vasili Mitrokhin, Frances Shand Kydd, Anthony Steffen, Zenkō Suzuki, and Uta Hagen. After him are Chiang Fang-liang, Boris Trajkovski, Marco Pantani, Jean Lefebvre, Artie Shaw, and Irina Press.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Abelson ranks 2,670 out of 18,182Before him are Annie Proulx (1935), Richard Beymer (1938), John W. Campbell (1910), Dan Flavin (1933), Joseph E. Johnston (1807), and Tito Puente (1923). After him are Jeff Daniels (1955), Ben Bernanke (1953), James M. Cain (1892), Besse Cooper (1896), Randy Rhoads (1956), and Frank Miller (1957).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Philip Abelson ranks 82Before him are Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Carl Wieman (1951), Edwin H. Land (1909), Robert W. Wood (1868), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Chester Carlson (1906). After him are Leonard Susskind (1940), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), Saul Perlmutter (1959), and Grote Reber (1911).