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Roy J. Glauber

American theoretical physicist

1925 - 2018

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His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2024). Roy J. Glauber is the 220th most popular physicist (up from 226th in 2024), the 835th most popular biography from United States (up from 907th in 2019) and the 45th 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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Roy J. Glauber ranks #835 among 23,232 people in Pantheon born in United States, inside the top 4% of that group.

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Roy J. Glauber climbed 1,540 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #9,015 to #7,481.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Roy J. Glauber ranks 220 out of 863. Before him are Yoichiro Nambu, Joseph Rotblat, Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, Robert H. Goddard, and Melvin Schwartz. After him are Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, Makoto Kobayashi, and Ettore Majorana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Roy J. Glauber ranks 46. Before him are Peter Brook, Bert Hellinger, Ernst Happel, Rod Steiger, Jacques Delors, and Gabriele Amorth. After him are Luciano Berio, Dick Van Dyke, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, William F. Buckley Jr., George Kennedy, and Robert Altman. Among people deceased in 2018, Roy J. Glauber ranks 36. Before him are Günter Blobel, Avicii, Paul Bocuse, Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington. After him are Hubert de Givenchy, Arvid Carlsson, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Thomas A. Steitz, John Gavin, and Aaron Klug.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 835 out of 23,232. Before him are Ruth Benedict (1887), Joan Crawford (1904), G. W. Bailey (1944), Ray Liotta (1954), John Carpenter (1948), and Krist Novoselic (1965). After him are Merrick Garland (1952), Allen Ginsberg (1926), King Oliver (1881), John Dillinger (1903), Steve Perry (1949), and Jason Robards (1922).

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Among Physicists In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Roy J. Glauber ranks 45. Before him are Edward Mills Purcell (1912), James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), Steven Weinberg (1933), Robert H. Goddard (1882), and Melvin Schwartz (1932). After him are Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Michio Kaku (1947), Frederick Reines (1918), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Arthur Ashkin (1922), and David Bohm (1992).

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