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PHYSICIST

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 194,597 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Richard E. Taylor is the 186th most popular physicist (up from 191st in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Canada (down from 33rd 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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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Richard E. Taylor ranks 186 out of 717Before him are Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Klaus von Klitzing, Louis Néel, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov. After him are Giorgio Parisi, Gerd Binnig, Yang Chen-Ning, Satyendra Nath Bose, John Archibald Wheeler, and John L. Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard E. Taylor ranks 51Before him are Mike Hawthorn, Jean Simmons, Eric Kandel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yevgeny Primakov, and Lennart Meri. After him are Günter Schabowski, Christa Wolf, Peter L. Berger, George Steiner, Zoltán Czibor, and Isamu Akasaki. Among people deceased in 2018, Richard E. Taylor ranks 30Before him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Arto Paasilinna, Arvid Carlsson, Jin Yong, Stéphane Audran, and Lys Assia. After him are Paul Allen, Jamal Khashoggi, Robert Venturi, Francis Lai, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Roy J. Glauber.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 35 out of 1,350Before him are Oswald Avery (1877), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Bryan Adams (1959), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Howard Shore (1946), and Henry Mintzberg (1939). After him are René Angélil (1942), William Giauque (1895), Joni Mitchell (1943), Paul Anka (1941), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), and Denis Villeneuve (1967).

Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 2Before 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), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).