1925 - 2018
Roy Jay Glauber (September 1, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New York City, he was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy J. Glauber has received more than 292,920 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Roy J. Glauber is the 205th most popular physicist (down from 186th in 2019), the 941st most popular biography from United States (down from 846th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Physicist.
Roy J. Glauber is most famous for his work in quantum optics, where he developed the theory of quantum noise and coherence.
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Among physicists, Roy J. Glauber ranks 205 out of 717. Before him are Nikolay Basov, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, David Lee, Joseph Rotblat, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and Armen Sarkissian. After him are Kai Siegbahn, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Herbert Kroemer, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Simon van der Meer, and Jerome Isaac Friedman.
1922 - 2001
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 199
1921 - 1999
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 200
1931 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 201
1908 - 2005
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 202
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 203
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 204
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 205
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 206
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 207
1928 - Present
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 208
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 209
1925 - 2011
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 210
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 211
Among people born in 1925, Roy J. Glauber ranks 52. Before him are Luciano Berio, Gerald Durrell, Robert Venturi, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Jacques Delors, and George Kennedy. After him are Barbara Bush, Simon van der Meer, Bülent Ecevit, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jean Tinguely, and Ieng Sary. Among people deceased in 2018, Roy J. Glauber ranks 36. Before him are Richard E. Taylor, Paul Allen, Jamal Khashoggi, Robert Venturi, Francis Lai, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After him are Bernard Lewis, V. S. Naipaul, Gudrun Burwitz, Barbara Bush, R. Lee Ermey, and Riccardo Giacconi.
1925 - 2003
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 46
1925 - 1995
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 47
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 48
1925 - 2019
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 49
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 50
1925 - 2016
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 51
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 52
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 53
1925 - 2011
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 54
1925 - 2006
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 55
1925 - 2012
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 56
1925 - 1991
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 57
1925 - 2013
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 58
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 30
1953 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 31
1958 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 32
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 33
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 34
1924 - 2018
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 35
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 36
1916 - 2018
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 37
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 38
1929 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 39
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 40
1944 - 2018
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 41
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 42
Among people born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 941 out of 18,182. Before him are Ambrose Bierce (1842), Louise Fletcher (1934), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), George Jung (1942), Forest Whitaker (1961), and Albert Pike (1809). After him are Pat Garrett (1850), Alfred Hershey (1908), Stan Getz (1927), Laura Bush (1946), C. Wright Mills (1916), and E. O. Wilson (1929).
1842 - 1914
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 935
1934 - 2022
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 936
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 937
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 938
1961 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 939
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 940
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 941
1850 - 1908
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 942
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 943
1927 - 1991
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 944
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 945
1916 - 1962
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 946
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 947
Among physicists born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 41. Before him are John Archibald Wheeler (1911), John L. Hall (1934), Frederick Reines (1918), Willis Lamb (1913), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), and David Lee (1931). After him are Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), George E. Smith (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Melvin Schwartz (1932), and Burton Richter (1931).
1911 - 2008
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 35
1934 - Present
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 36
1918 - 1998
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 37
1913 - 2008
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 38
1921 - 1999
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 39
1931 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 40
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 41
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 42
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 43
1915 - 2001
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 44
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 45
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 46
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 47