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Richard E. Taylor

1929 - 2018

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Richard Edward Taylor, (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard E. Taylor has received more than 204,865 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Richard E. Taylor is the 208th most popular physicist (down from 186th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Canada (up from 35th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Physicist.

Richard E. Taylor is most famous for his work in the field of nuclear physics. He is credited with the discovery of the particle known as the tau lepton in 1976.

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  • 64.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Richard E. Taylor ranks 208 out of 851. Before him are Michio Kaku, David J. Wineland, Mihajlo Pupin, Alain Aspect, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Robert Hofstadter. After him are James Cronin, David J. Thouless, David Lee, Arthur Ashkin, Yoichiro Nambu, and Abdus Salam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard E. Taylor ranks 42. Before him are Hafizullah Amin, Zdzisław Beksiński, Babrak Karmal, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lennart Meri, and Graham Hill. After him are Bruno Cremer, Milorad Pavić, Helmut Rahn, Eric Kandel, Werner Arber, and Bill Evans. Among people deceased in 2018, Richard E. Taylor ranks 28. Before him are Billy Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Burt Reynolds, Riccardo Giacconi, Lys Assia, and Arto Paasilinna. After him are Jens Christian Skou, Arvid Carlsson, Robert Venturi, Stéphane Audran, Charles K. Kao, and Francis Lai.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 31 out of 1,622. Before him are Saul Bellow (1915), Neil Young (1945), Neil Peart (1952), Pierre Trudeau (1919), William Shatner (1931), and Pamela Anderson (1967). After him are Ralph M. Steinman (1943), Bryan Adams (1959), Robert Mundell (1932), Dan Aykroyd (1952), René Angélil (1942), and Arthur B. McDonald (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 2. Before him are Willard Boyle (1924). After him are Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Jim Peebles (1935), Donna Strickland (1959), Louis Slotin (1910), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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