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Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Hawking has received more than 75,463,788 page views. His biography is available in 147 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 139 in 2019). Stephen Hawking is the 5th most popular physicist (down from 4th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 11th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 147

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Stephen Hawking ranks 5 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Wilhelm Röntgen. After him are Michael Faraday, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Ørsted, Pierre Curie, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Stephen Hawking ranks 6. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Paul McCartney, Martin Scorsese, Muammar Gaddafi, and Joe Biden. After him are Aretha Franklin, Amitabh Bachchan, Eusébio, Hu Jintao, Harrison Ford, and Jimi Hendrix. Among people deceased in 2018, Stephen Hawking ranks 1. After him are Aretha Franklin, George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, Charles Aznavour, Ingvar Kamprad, Montserrat Caballé, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Stan Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, Miloš Forman, and Amos Oz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking ranks 18 out of 8,785. Before him are James Watt (1736), Richard III of England (1452), Paul McCartney (1942), Anthony Hopkins (1937), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), and Queen Victoria (1819). After him are Richard I of England (1157), Michael Faraday (1791), Henry VIII of England (1491), Agatha Christie (1890), Thomas Hobbes (1588), and Alan Turing (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hawking ranks 2. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643). After him are Michael Faraday (1791), James Prescott Joule (1818), Robert Hooke (1635), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Paul Dirac (1902), J. J. Thomson (1856), William Gilbert (1544), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Thomas Young (1773), and James Chadwick (1891).

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