1942 - 2018
Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians. In October 1959, at the age of 17, he began his university education at University College, Oxford, where he received a first-class BA degree in physics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Hawking has received more than 72,972,281 page views. His biography is available in 139 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 135 in 2019). Stephen Hawking is the 4th most popular physicist, the 11th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 12th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Physicist.
Stephen Hawking is most famous for his contributions to physics and cosmology, in particular his theory that black holes emit radiation.
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Among physicists, Stephen Hawking ranks 4 out of 717. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie. After him are Michael Faraday, Wilhelm Röntgen, Alessandro Volta, Max Planck, Robert Hooke, Pierre Curie, Hans Christian Ørsted, and James Prescott Joule.
1643 - 1726
HPI: 98.35
Rank: 1
1879 - 1955
HPI: 93.06
Rank: 2
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.71
Rank: 3
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 4
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 5
1845 - 1923
HPI: 83.44
Rank: 6
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 7
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 8
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 9
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 10
1777 - 1851
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 11
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1942, Stephen Hawking ranks 2. Before him is Muhammad Ali. After him are Muammar Gaddafi, Joe Biden, Aretha Franklin, Martin Scorsese, Amitabh Bachchan, Hu Jintao, Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, Eusébio, and Harrison Ford. Among people deceased in 2018, Stephen Hawking ranks 1. After him are Aretha Franklin, George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, Charles Aznavour, Ingvar Kamprad, Stan Lee, Montserrat Caballé, Miloš Forman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Charles K. Kao, and Amos Oz.
1942 - 2016
HPI: 89.51
Rank: 1
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 2
1942 - 2011
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 3
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.47
Rank: 4
1942 - 2018
HPI: 81.57
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 6
1942 - Present
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 7
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.99
Rank: 8
1942 - 1970
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 9
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 10
1942 - 2014
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 11
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 12
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 1
1942 - 2018
HPI: 81.57
Rank: 2
1924 - 2018
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 3
1938 - 2018
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 4
1924 - 2018
HPI: 76.87
Rank: 5
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 6
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 7
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 8
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 9
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 10
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 11
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking ranks 11 out of 7,765. Before him are Elizabeth II (1926), John Locke (1632), Francis Bacon (1561), Elizabeth I of England (1533), Winston Churchill (1874), and Charlie Chaplin (1889). After him are James Watt (1736), Henry VIII of England (1491), Queen Victoria (1819), Thomas Hobbes (1588), Richard III of England (1452), and Michael Faraday (1791).
1926 - 2022
HPI: 90.46
Rank: 5
1632 - 1704
HPI: 88.31
Rank: 6
1561 - 1626
HPI: 87.67
Rank: 7
1533 - 1603
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 8
1874 - 1965
HPI: 86.92
Rank: 9
1889 - 1977
HPI: 86.83
Rank: 10
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 11
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 12
1491 - 1547
HPI: 86.01
Rank: 13
1819 - 1901
HPI: 85.80
Rank: 14
1588 - 1679
HPI: 84.85
Rank: 15
1452 - 1485
HPI: 84.85
Rank: 16
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 17
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking ranks 2. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643). After him are Michael Faraday (1791), Robert Hooke (1635), James Prescott Joule (1818), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Paul Dirac (1902), J. J. Thomson (1856), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869).
1643 - 1726
HPI: 98.35
Rank: 1
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 2
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 3
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 4
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 5
1831 - 1879
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 6
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 7
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 8
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 9
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 10
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 11
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12