1937 - 2013
Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.Richardson was born in Washington D.C. He went to high school at Washington-Lee in Arlington, Virginia. He later described Washington-Lee's biology and physics courses as "very old-fashioned" for the time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Coleman Richardson has received more than 114,749 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Robert Coleman Richardson is the 142nd most popular physicist (up from 170th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from United States (up from 769th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Physicist.
Robert Richardson is most famous for his work as a photographer. He is best known for his work in the field of photojournalism, and he is famous for his work on the front lines of the Vietnam War.
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Among physicists, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 142 out of 717. Before him are Albert Fert, François Englert, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jacques Charles, Frits Zernike, and Hideki Yukawa. After him are Felix Bloch, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans Bethe, William Shockley, and Johann Jakob Balmer.
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 136
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 137
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 138
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 139
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 140
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 141
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 142
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 143
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 144
1873 - 1916
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 145
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 146
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 147
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 148
Among people born in 1937, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 26. Before him are Egon Krenz, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ahmed Yassin, Warren Beatty, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. After him are Philip Glass, Bruce McLaren, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Jared Diamond, Gennady Yanayev, and Bill Cosby. Among people deceased in 2013, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 23. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer, Lou Reed, Giulio Andreotti, Christian de Duve, Djalma Santos, and Robert Edwards. After him are Douglas Engelbart, Georges Moustaki, Nílton Santos, Don Shirley, Rochus Misch, and François Jacob.
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 20
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 21
1937 - 2004
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 22
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 23
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 24
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 25
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 26
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 27
1937 - 1970
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 28
1937 - 2024
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 29
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 30
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 31
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 32
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 17
1942 - 2013
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 18
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 19
1917 - 2013
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 20
1929 - 2013
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 21
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 22
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 23
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 24
1934 - 2013
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 25
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 26
1927 - 2013
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 27
1917 - 2013
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 28
1920 - 2013
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 29
Among people born in United States, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 585 out of 18,182. Before him are Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), John Deere (1804), Kevin Spacey (1959), John R. Bolton (1948), Mia Farrow (1945), and Ed Harris (1950). After him are Douglas Engelbart (1925), Angela Davis (1944), Clifford Geertz (1926), Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Kim Novak (1933), and Lon Chaney (1883).
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 579
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 580
1959 - Present
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 581
1948 - Present
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 582
1945 - Present
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 583
1950 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 584
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 585
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 586
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 587
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 588
1958 - 2006
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 589
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 590
1883 - 1930
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 591
Among physicists born in United States, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 16. Before him are Kip Thorne (1940), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Ernest Lawrence (1901), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839). After him are Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Hugh Everett III (1930), Michio Kaku (1947), and Murray Gell-Mann (1929).
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 13
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 14
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 15
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 16
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 18
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 19
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 20
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 21
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 22