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Stanley Mandelstam

1928 - 2016

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Stanley Mandelstam (; 12 December 1928 – 23 June 2016) was a South African theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Mandelstam has received more than 114,725 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Stanley Mandelstam is the 707th most popular physicist (down from 662nd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 117th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Stanley Mandelstam ranks 707 out of 851Before him are Helen Quinn, Gregor Wentzel, Stuart Hameroff, Marcia Neugebauer, Aleksandr Andronov, and Vilho Väisälä. After him are Ernst Stueckelberg, Elliott H. Lieb, Albert W. Hull, Nicholas Metropolis, Bill Nye, and Michael Fisher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Stanley Mandelstam ranks 450Before him are Santiago Vernazza, Raymond E. Brown, Bernard Cribbins, William Alexander Morgan, Lucyna Winnicka, and Angélica Gorodischer. After him are Clu Gulager, Rıdvan Bolatlı, Milan Rúfus, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Nigel Davenport, and Alice Drummond. Among people deceased in 2016, Stanley Mandelstam ranks 397Before him are Alexis Arquette, Rune Larsson, Alberto Sainz, Malick Sidibé, José Luis Artetxe, and Erol Keskin. After him are Halfdan T. Mahler, Gottfried Honegger, David Margulies, Paulo Emilio, Alain Decaux, and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Stanley Mandelstam ranks 134 out of 454Before him are Kevin Curren (1958), Mark Shuttleworth (1973), Enoch Sontonga (1873), Belle Delphine (1999), Andrew Murray (1828), and Frew McMillan (1942). After him are Janet Suzman (1939), Marjorie Clark (1909), John Kani (1943), Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891), Solomon Linda (1909), and Johan Kriek (1958).

Among PHYSICISTS In South Africa

Among physicists born in South Africa, Stanley Mandelstam ranks 2Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924). After him are George F. R. Ellis (1939), and Neil Turok (1958).