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Samuel C. C. Ting

1936 - Today

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Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936) is an American physicist who, with Burton Richter, received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel C. C. Ting has received more than 283,187 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Samuel C. C. Ting is the 288th most popular physicist (up from 293rd in 2019), the 1,495th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,618th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 288 out of 717Before him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Ivar Giaever, George Smoot, Ernest Walton, Ludwig Prandtl, and Thomas Johann Seebeck. After him are Carlo Rubbia, David Gross, Ernst Chladni, Makoto Kobayashi, Fritjof Capra, and Walter Kohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 73Before him are Émile Lahoud, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Duncan Edwards, Petar Mladenov, Iolanda Balaș, and François Pinault. After him are Bekim Fehmiu, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, J. Michael Bishop, Moussa Traoré, and Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 1,495 out of 18,182Before him are Johns Hopkins (1795), Patrick McGoohan (1928), Ma Barker (1873), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Lloyd Bridges (1913), and Alfred G. Gilman (1941). After him are George Papandreou (1952), Richard Ramirez (1960), Robert J. Shiller (1946), George Stevens (1904), Sonny Rollins (1930), and Angelo Badalamenti (1937).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 58Before him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Douglas Osheroff (1945), and George Smoot (1945). After him are David Gross (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), and Steven Chu (1948).