1950 - Today
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 136,594 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Russell Alan Hulse is the 74th most popular astronomer (up from 128th in 2019), the 1,158th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,857th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 74 out of 531. Before him are George Darwin, Albert Marth, William Lassell, Victor Ambartsumian, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, and Max Wolf. After him are Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Stephen Gray, Petrus Plancius, Arthur B. McDonald, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, and Karl Ludwig Harding.
1845 - 1912
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 68
1828 - 1897
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 69
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 70
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 71
815 - 896
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 72
1863 - 1932
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 73
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 74
1029 - 1087
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 75
1666 - 1736
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 76
1552 - 1622
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 77
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 78
810 - 860
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 79
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 80
Among people born in 1950, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 40. Before him are Jody Williams, William H. Macy, Marcheline Bertrand, Daniel Auteuil, Jody Scheckter, and Tsugumi Ohba. After him are Vesna Vulović, Georg Bednorz, Morgan Fairchild, Grzegorz Lato, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, and Nouri al-Maliki.
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 34
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 35
1950 - 2007
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 36
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 37
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 38
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 39
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 40
1950 - 2016
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 41
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 42
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 43
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 44
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 45
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 46
Among people born in United States, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 1,158 out of 18,182. Before him are Don Siegel (1912), George H. Hitchings (1905), William Gibson (1948), Andre Agassi (1970), Robert Taylor (1911), and Julian Schwinger (1918). After him are Martha Gellhorn (1908), Hal Holbrook (1925), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Phil Jackson (1945), William Boeing (1881), and Tori Amos (1963).
1912 - 1991
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 1,152
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 1,153
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 1,154
1970 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 1,155
1911 - 1969
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 1,156
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 1,157
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 1,158
1908 - 1998
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 1,159
1925 - 2021
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 1,160
1821 - 1877
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 1,161
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 1,162
1881 - 1956
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 1,163
1963 - Present
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 1,164
Among astronomers born in United States, Russell Alan Hulse ranks 12. Before him are Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Asaph Hall (1829), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Vera Rubin (1928), and Percival Lowell (1855). After him are Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), J. Allen Hynek (1910), and James Van Allen (1914).
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 6
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 7
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 8
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 9
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 10
1855 - 1916
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 12
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 13
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 14
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 16
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 17
1914 - 2006
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 18