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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 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

Among physicists, Richard C. Tolman ranks 487 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Richard C. Tolman ranks 104Before 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 95Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard C. Tolman ranks 4,113 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Richard C. Tolman ranks 97Before 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).