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Seth Neddermeyer

1907 - 1988

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Seth Henry Neddermeyer (September 16, 1907 – January 29, 1988) was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seth Neddermeyer has received more than 440,760 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Seth Neddermeyer is the 596th most popular physicist (up from 742nd in 2019), the 5,600th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,135th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Seth Neddermeyer ranks 596 out of 851. Before him are John Robison, Prosper-René Blondlot, Georg Adolf Erman, Wallace Clement Sabine, Clyde Cowan, and Joan Feynman. After him are Bruno Zumino, Toshiko Yuasa, Heinrich Kayser, Alfred Kleiner, Robert H. Dicke, and Henry Augustus Rowland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Seth Neddermeyer ranks 225. Before him are Zezé Moreira, Heikki Savolainen, Mark Krein, Émile Veinante, Ragnar Gustavsson, and Lydia Chukovskaya. After him are Mascha Kaléko, Wanda Jakubowska, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Đuro Kurepa, Philip Arthur Fisher, and James Robertson Justice. Among people deceased in 1988, Seth Neddermeyer ranks 147. Before him are Iosif Grigulevich, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Franca Raimondi, Rodolpho Barteczko, Francisco Rodrigues, and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. After him are Ernest Labrousse, Frederick Loewe, Roy Urquhart, Sylvester, Louise Nevelson, and Colleen Moore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Seth Neddermeyer ranks 5,600 out of 20,380. Before him are John Dall (1920), Branscombe Richmond (1955), Lee Radziwill (1933), Sally Kellerman (1937), Jean Bartik (1924), and Luther Vandross (1951). After him are Ron Silver (1946), Merle Haggard (1937), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), Bobby Bland (1930), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (1973), and Erica Jong (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Seth Neddermeyer ranks 120. Before him are Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), Charles W. Misner (1932), William D. Coolidge (1873), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Clyde Cowan (1919), and Joan Feynman (1927). After him are Robert H. Dicke (1916), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), James Hansen (1941), Harry Daghlian (1921), and Harold Brown (1927).

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