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Robert Brout

1928 - 2011

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Robert Brout (; June 14, 1928 – May 3, 2011) was an American-born Belgian theoretical physicist who made significant contributions in elementary particle physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Brout has received more than 105,413 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Robert Brout is the 386th most popular physicist (up from 465th in 2019), the 2,402nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,803rd in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 1.82

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Brout ranks 386 out of 851. Before her are Georgy Flyorov, Duncan Haldane, Hiroshi Amano, Oskar Klein, Christopher Polhem, and Sameera Moussa. After her are Louis Poinsot, Wolfgang Ketterle, George Johnstone Stoney, John Henry Poynting, Franz Aepinus, and Friedrich Paschen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Robert Brout ranks 149. Before her are Otto F. Kernberg, Anne Sexton, Petr Ginz, Shulamit Aloni, Veljko Bulajić, and Ernest Simoni. After her are Nicolas Hayek, Joss Ackland, Leyla Gencer, Adrian Frutiger, Gerard Damiano, and Enrique Bolaños. Among people deceased in 2011, Robert Brout ranks 96. Before her are Danielle Mitterrand, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Saad el-Shazly, Cy Twombly, Frans Sammut, and Ján Popluhár. After her are Jesús María Pereda, Loriot, Eugene Nida, Christopher Hitchens, Maria Altmann, and Lidia Gueiler Tejada.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Brout ranks 2,402 out of 20,380. Before her are Sam Rockwell (1968), Katey Sagal (1954), Nora Ephron (1941), Broncho Billy Anderson (1880), Danny Elfman (1953), and Chris Evans (1981). After her are Scott McKenzie (1939), Ed Sullivan (1901), Larry Fink (1952), Asa Akira (1986), Bill Duke (1943), and Voltairine de Cleyre (1866).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Brout ranks 77. Before her are Philip Abelson (1913), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Carl Wieman (1951), John Mauchly (1907), Nathan Rosen (1909), and Ralph Asher Alpher (1921). After her are Edward Witten (1951), Chester Carlson (1906), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Robert Serber (1909), and Evelyn Fox Keller (1936).

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