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Saul Perlmutter

1959 - Today

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Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saul Perlmutter has received more than 389,276 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Saul Perlmutter is the 425th most popular physicist (up from 435th in 2019), the 2,858th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,321st in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 61.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Saul Perlmutter ranks 425 out of 851. Before him are Arpad Elo, Leonard Susskind, Jacob Bekenstein, Louis Paul Cailletet, Johanna Budwig, and Federico Faggin. After him are Ludvig Lorenz, Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Philip Morrison, and Douglas Hofstadter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Saul Perlmutter ranks 99. Before him are Byung-Chul Han, Andrea de Cesaris, Suzanne Vega, Kokhir Rasulzoda, Saïd Aouita, and Laura Chinchilla. After him are Azali Assoumani, Muhammad bin Nayef, Rebecca De Mornay, Marcia Gay Harden, Matthew Modine, and Renny Harlin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Saul Perlmutter ranks 2,858 out of 20,380. Before him are Everett McGill (1945), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Selena (1971), and Alan Dershowitz (1938). After him are Cy Young (1867), John W. Campbell (1910), George Mikan (1924), Rodney Alcala (1943), Mabel Normand (1892), and Robert Ressler (1937).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Saul Perlmutter ranks 85. Before him are Chester Carlson (1906), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Robert Serber (1909), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), and Leonard Susskind (1940). After him are Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Philip Morrison (1915), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), and Robert W. Wood (1868).

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