1929 - 2018
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, Richard E. Taylor ranks 186 out of 717. Before 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.
1620 - 1684
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 180
1915 - 1990
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 181
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 182
1904 - 2000
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 183
1915 - 2011
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 184
1928 - 2017
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 185
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 186
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 187
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 188
1922 - Present
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 189
1894 - 1974
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 190
1911 - 2008
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 191
1934 - Present
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 192
Among people born in 1929, Richard E. Taylor ranks 51. Before 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 30. Before 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.
1929 - 1959
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 45
1929 - 2010
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 46
1929 - Present
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 47
1929 - 2016
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 48
1929 - 2015
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 49
1929 - 2006
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 50
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 51
1929 - 2015
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 52
1929 - 2011
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 53
1929 - 2017
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 54
1929 - 2020
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 55
1929 - 1997
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 56
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 57
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 24
1942 - 2018
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 25
1923 - 2018
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 26
1924 - 2018
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 27
1932 - 2018
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 28
1924 - 2018
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 29
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 30
1953 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 31
1958 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 32
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 33
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 34
1924 - 2018
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 35
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 36
Among people born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 35 out of 1,350. Before 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).
1877 - 1955
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 29
1908 - 2006
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 30
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 31
1919 - 2000
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 32
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 33
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 34
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 35
1942 - 2016
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 36
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 37
1943 - Present
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 38
1941 - Present
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 39
1918 - 2003
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 40
1967 - Present
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 41
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), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 1
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 2
1918 - 2003
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 4
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 5
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 6
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 7
1876 - 1933
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 8
1927 - 2012
HPI: 37.04
Rank: 9