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Richard C. Tolman

1881 - 1948

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Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881 – September 5, 1948) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics. He also made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard C. Tolman has received more than 337,631 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Richard C. Tolman is the 443rd most popular physicist (up from 487th in 2019), the 3,082nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,102nd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Richard C. Tolman ranks 443 out of 851. Before him are Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, Robert W. Wood, Heinrich Rubens, Walther Meissner, and Katharine Burr Blodgett. After him are Gabriele Veneziano, Meghnad Saha, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Lyman Spitzer, Hagen Kleinert, and Louis Harold Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Richard C. Tolman ranks 94. Before him are Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Adolf Meyer, King Oliver, Louis Trousselier, Rauf Orbay, and Ernest Bevin. After him are Valery Larbaud, Adolf Hühnlein, Wilhelm Worringer, Nuri Killigil, Grigory Kotovsky, and André Salmon. Among people deceased in 1948, Richard C. Tolman ranks 89. Before him are Thekla Resvoll, Lizzie Magie, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Tony Garnier, Harilal Gandhi, and Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein. After him are Maximilian Grabner, Na Hye-sok, Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Princess Marie Louise of Hanover, Georgios Tsolakoglou, and Phraya Manopakorn Nititada.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard C. Tolman ranks 3,082 out of 20,380. Before him are Jackie Stallone (1921), Walton Walker (1889), Lisa Niemi (1956), Chubby Checker (1941), Mark Granovetter (1943), and Michael J. Smith (1945). After him are Brad Dexter (1917), Juliette Lewis (1973), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Craig Venter (1946), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), and Mary L. Cleave (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Richard C. Tolman ranks 93. Before him are Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Philip Morrison (1915), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert W. Wood (1868), and Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898). After him are Lyman Spitzer (1914), Alan Guth (1947), Clarence Zener (1905), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Gordon Gould (1920), and Ira Sprague Bowen (1898).

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