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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 296,536 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Samuel C. C. Ting is the 323rd most popular physicist (down from 288th in 2019), the 1,641st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,495th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

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  • 4.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 323 out of 851. Before him are Robert B. Laughlin, Ernst Chladni, William Whewell, John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Henri Pitot. After him are Thomas Johann Seebeck, Bruno Pontecorvo, John B. Goodenough, Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, and Félix Savart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 89. Before him are Jill Ireland, Kenneth G. Wilson, Christine Nöstlinger, Petar Mladenov, Omar Suleiman, and Eric Walter Elst. After him are Leonel Sánchez, Jean M. Auel, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Héctor Elizondo, Don DeLillo, and Moussa Traoré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 1,641 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Anderson (1862), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Jackie Coogan (1914), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), Eddie Cochran (1938), and Cleveland Abbe (1838). After him are Elisha Gray (1835), Art Tatum (1909), Wes Studi (1947), Larry Holmes (1949), Annie Leibovitz (1949), and Jack Black (1969).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 67. Before him are William Daniel Phillips (1948), David Gross (1941), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John C. Mather (1946), and Kenneth G. Wilson (1936). After him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Frank Wilczek (1951), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Philip Abelson (1913), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), and Carl Wieman (1951).

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