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Richard Feynman

1918 - 1988

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Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Feynman has received more than 12,335,491 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Richard Feynman is the 36th most popular physicist (down from 28th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from United States (down from 101st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Physicist.

Richard Feynman is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12M

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  • 74.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 110

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Richard Feynman has had the most page views in the with 2,180,853 views, followed by Spanish (229,915), and German (176,569). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (181.70%), Kazakh (127.59%), and Korean (119.31%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Richard Feynman ranks 36 out of 851. Before him are Ibn al-Haytham, Luigi Galvani, Gustav Kirchhoff, Max Born, Andrei Sakharov, and Paul Dirac. After him are Henry Cavendish, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Wolfgang Pauli, Lise Meitner, Gerard 't Hooft, and Max von Laue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Richard Feynman ranks 7. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Ingmar Bergman, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. After him are Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, Rita Hayworth, and Helmut Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1988, Richard Feynman ranks 3. Before him are Enzo Ferrari, and Georgy Malenkov. After him are Nico, Ernst Ruska, Valery Legasov, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Robert A. Heinlein, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chet Baker, and Roy Orbison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Feynman ranks 128 out of 20,380. Before him are Chuck Norris (1940), Katharine Hepburn (1907), Dustin Hoffman (1937), Dr. Seuss (1904), Meryl Streep (1949), and Douglas MacArthur (1880). After him are Michael Douglas (1944), William Faulkner (1897), Milton Friedman (1912), Patti Smith (1946), Will Smith (1968), and Rosa Parks (1913).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Richard Feynman ranks 2. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904). After him are Barry Barish (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), John Bardeen (1908), Clinton Davisson (1881), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926).

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