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Russell Alan Hulse

1950 - Today

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Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Russell Alan Hulse has received more than 170,236 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Russell Alan Hulse is the 80th most popular astronomer (down from 74th in 2019), the 1,066th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,158th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.33

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  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 80 out of 644. Before him are James Bradley, Walter Baade, Fritz Zwicky, Stephen Gray, David Fabricius, and George Darwin. After him are Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Percival Lowell, Lewis A. Swift, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and Victor Ambartsumian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 44. Before him are Jody Williams, Flavio Briatore, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Georg Bednorz, Gabriel Byrne, and Ma Ying-jeou. After him are Jody Scheckter, Nouri al-Maliki, Suzi Quatro, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Roza Otunbayeva, and Julie Walters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 1,066 out of 20,380. Before him are Nellie Bly (1864), James Jones (1921), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), and L. Frank Baum (1856). After him are Philip Zimbardo (1933), Jack Kemp (1935), Virginia Satir (1916), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Joel Schumacher (1939), and Dred Scott (1795).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 12. Before him are Vera Rubin (1928), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Asaph Hall (1829), and Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928). After him are Percival Lowell (1855), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), and James Van Allen (1914).

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