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Steven Chu

1948 - Today

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Steven Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Chu has received more than 1,241,184 page views. Her biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Steven Chu is the 285th most popular physicist (up from 314th in 2019), the 1,302nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,772nd in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Steven Chu ranks 285 out of 851. Before her are Antoine César Becquerel, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Victor Weisskopf, Walter Kohn, and Anthony James Leggett. After her are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Christoph Scheiner, Ettore Majorana, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, and Friedrich Hund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Steven Chu ranks 72. Before her are Edmund Kemper, Edwige Fenech, Chris de Burgh, Radomir Antić, Alan Parsons, and Maye Musk. After her are Agnieszka Holland, Nathalie Baye, Alia Al-Hussein, Ray Kurzweil, René Arnoux, and Dan Simmons.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steven Chu ranks 1,302 out of 20,380. Before her are Danny Aiello (1933), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), John Fenn (1917), Robert Taylor (1911), Alyson Hannigan (1974), and George Dantzig (1914). After her are Chyna (1969), William Randolph Hearst (1863), Chris Columbus (1958), Owen Wilson (1968), Dionne Warwick (1940), and Philip Johnson (1906).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Steven Chu ranks 59. Before her are John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), and Hugh David Politzer (1949). After her are George Smoot (1945), William Daniel Phillips (1948), David Gross (1941), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), and John C. Mather (1946).

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