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Robert Bacher

1905 - 2004

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Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 – November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, Bacher obtained his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan, writing his 1930 doctoral thesis under the supervision of Samuel Goudsmit on the Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of atomic levels. After graduate work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he accepted a job at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Bacher has received more than 131,921 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Bacher is the 766th most popular physicist (down from 713th in 2019), the 10,035th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,462nd in 2019) and the 168th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Bacher ranks 766 out of 851. Before him are Valentine Telegdi, Robert Marshak, Jürgen Kurths, Peter Zoller, Anatoly Logunov, and Sidney Coleman. After him are Jacques Friedel, Shirley Ann Jackson, Edward C. Stone, Stanton T. Friedman, Erwin Hahn, and Charles Sheffield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Robert Bacher ranks 364. Before him are Edvin Laine, Hanns Kilian, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Kenneth Rexroth, Isaac Kashdan, and Tommy Flowers. After him are Friederich Franzl, Leroy Carr, Enrico Rivolta, Pierre Jaccoud, George Gulack, and René Bondoux. Among people deceased in 2004, Robert Bacher ranks 290. Before him are Kristian Henriksen, Eric Douglas, Yang Xinhai, Nirupa Roy, Fernando Poe Jr., and Lea De Mae. After him are Arnold Orville Beckman, Vilayat Khan, George Hunter, Jacek Kaczmarski, Bill Pickering, and Ruslan Gelayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bacher ranks 10,035 out of 20,380. Before him are Susan Oliver (1932), Paul Le Mat (1945), Terry Callier (1945), Sidney Coleman (1937), Rosie Perez (1964), and Jane Krakowski (1968). After him are Charles Brackett (1892), Bridget Regan (1982), Eugene Pallette (1889), John Perry Barlow (1947), Royce D. Applegate (1939), and John Sedgwick (1813).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Bacher ranks 168. Before him are Seymour Benzer (1921), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Frank Benford (1883), Conyers Herring (1914), Robert Marshak (1916), and Sidney Coleman (1937). After him are Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Edward C. Stone (1936), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Erwin Hahn (1921), James M. Bardeen (1939), and Bertrand Halperin (1941).

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