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Robert J. Van de Graaff

1901 - 1967

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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (December 20, 1901 – January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high-voltage Van de Graaff generators. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert J. Van de Graaff has received more than 286,742 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Robert J. Van de Graaff is the 429th most popular physicist (down from 369th in 2019), the 2,902nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,436th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 429 out of 851. Before him are Johanna Budwig, Federico Faggin, Saul Perlmutter, Ludvig Lorenz, Johann Andreas Segner, and Karl Guthe Jansky. After him are Philip Morrison, Douglas Hofstadter, Mildred Dresselhaus, Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, and Hendrik Casimir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 114. Before him are René Pleven, Michel Leiris, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Hellmuth Stieff, Jean Prouvé, and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid. After him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Hermann Priess, Karl-August Fagerholm, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, Pavel Rotmistrov, and Raúl Prebisch. Among people deceased in 1967, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 102. Before him are Oskar Fischinger, Miklós Kállay, Pierre Jeanneret, Eddie Eagan, George Lincoln Rockwell, and Mir Osman Ali Khan. After him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Franz Waxman, Paul Löbe, Ferenc Münnich, Alice B. Toklas, and Geki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 2,902 out of 20,380. Before him are Laurie Holden (1969), August Derleth (1909), Carl Brashear (1931), Henry Hill (1943), Leon Russom (1941), and Marty Friedman (1962). After him are Philip Morrison (1915), J. Walter Christie (1865), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Mark Dacascos (1964), Delbert Mann (1920), and Woody Strode (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 87. Before him are Edwin Hall (1855), Robert Serber (1909), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Leonard Susskind (1940), Saul Perlmutter (1959), and Karl Guthe Jansky (1905). After him are Philip Morrison (1915), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), and Richard C. Tolman (1881).

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