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Robert H. Dicke

1916 - 1997

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Robert Henry Dicke (; May 6, 1916 – March 4, 1997) was an American astronomer and physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert H. Dicke has received more than 218,563 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert H. Dicke is the 518th most popular physicist (up from 526th in 2019), the 4,610th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,516th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert H. Dicke ranks 518 out of 717. Before him are Macedonio Melloni, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, August Beer, Leopoldo Nobili, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Carlo Rovelli. After him are Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, Lester Germer, Max Wien, Sergey Kapitsa, and John Sealy Townsend.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Robert H. Dicke ranks 146. Before him are Lou Thesz, Fernando Lamas, Penelope Fitzgerald, Movita Castaneda, Dom Mintoff, and Dorothy McGuire. After him are Jacques Georges, Carlo Rustichelli, Herbert Norkus, Françoise Giroud, José López Rega, and Lars Korvald. Among people deceased in 1997, Robert H. Dicke ranks 145. Before him are Aurelio González, Georges Marchal, Agnieszka Osiecka, Alexander Kazhdan, Sándor Végh, and Misael Pastrana Borrero. After him are René Huyghe, Seni Pramoj, Salvador Artigas, Josef Pieper, Léon Poliakov, and Bengt Danielsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert H. Dicke ranks 4,610 out of 18,182. Before him are Lee Wallard (1910), Mary Blair (1911), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Mary Alice (1941), Kendall Jenner (1995), and Carl Bernstein (1944). After him are Michael Kahn (1935), Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Richard Kiley (1922), Gary Hart (1936), Richard Sears (1861), and Herman Wouk (1915).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert H. Dicke ranks 101. Before him are Maurice Karnaugh (1924), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Richard C. Tolman (1881), John G. Trump (1907), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), and Mildred Dresselhaus (1930). After him are Clarence Zener (1905), Lester Germer (1896), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Brian Greene (1963), and Wallace Clement Sabine (1868).

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