1881 - 1948
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 284,517 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard C. Tolman is the 487th most popular physicist (down from 480th in 2019), the 4,113th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,863rd in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Richard C. Tolman ranks 487 out of 717. Before him are Pierre Victor Auger, Otto Lehmann, Ernest Marsden, Jayant Narlikar, Edoardo Amaldi, and Boris Podolsky. After him are Dennis W. Sciama, Pierre Weiss, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Jakob II Bernoulli, Heinz von Foerster, and Gunnar Nordström.
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 481
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 482
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 483
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 484
1908 - 1989
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 485
1896 - 1966
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 486
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 487
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 488
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 489
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 490
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 491
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 492
1881 - 1923
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 493
Among people born in 1881, Richard C. Tolman ranks 104. Before him are Valery Larbaud, Israel Zolli, Nuri Killigil, Zoltán Halmay, Jānis Balodis, and Nasib Yusifbeyli. After him are Yakov Protazanov, Ernest Bevin, Pablo Gargallo, Ber Borochov, Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Gunnar Nordström. Among people deceased in 1948, Richard C. Tolman ranks 95. Before him are Eugen Slutsky, Vicente Huidobro, Monteiro Lobato, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Manuel Roxas, and Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are Charles Evans Hughes, Richard Tauber, Kan Kikuchi, May Whitty, Lizzie Magie, and August Hlond.
1881 - 1957
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 98
1881 - 1956
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 99
1881 - 1949
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 100
1881 - 1956
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 101
1881 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 102
1881 - 1920
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 103
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 104
1881 - 1945
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 105
1881 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 106
1881 - 1934
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 107
1881 - 1917
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 108
1881 - 1967
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 109
1881 - 1923
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 110
1880 - 1948
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 89
1893 - 1948
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 90
1882 - 1948
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 91
1904 - 1948
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 92
1892 - 1948
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 93
1870 - 1948
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 94
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 95
1862 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 96
1891 - 1948
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 97
1888 - 1948
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 98
1865 - 1948
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 99
1866 - 1948
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 100
1881 - 1948
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 101
Among people born in United States, Richard C. Tolman ranks 4,113 out of 18,182. Before him are Alice Paul (1885), Pharrell Williams (1973), Spencer Johnson (1938), James Russell Lowell (1819), Chuck Connors (1921), and James Ingram (1952). After him are George Segal (1924), Wayne Rainey (1960), Marlon Wayans (1972), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), Lon L. Fuller (1902), and Michael Weatherly (1968).
1885 - 1977
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 4,107
1973 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 4,108
1938 - 2017
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 4,109
1819 - 1891
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 4,110
1921 - 1992
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 4,111
1952 - 2019
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 4,112
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 4,113
1924 - 2000
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 4,114
1960 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 4,115
1972 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 4,116
1862 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 4,117
1902 - 1978
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 4,118
1968 - Present
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 4,119
Among physicists born in United States, Richard C. Tolman ranks 97. Before him are Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), and William Stanley Jr. (1858). After him are John G. Trump (1907), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert H. Dicke (1916), Clarence Zener (1905), and Lester Germer (1896).
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 92
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 93
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 94
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 95
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 96
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 97
1907 - 1985
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 98
1898 - 1973
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 99
1930 - 2017
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 100
1916 - 1997
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 101
1905 - 1993
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 102
1896 - 1971
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 103