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Tom Kibble

1932 - 2016

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Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble (; 23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016) was a British theoretical physicist, senior research investigator at the Blackett Laboratory and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. His research interests were in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He is best known as one of the first to describe the Higgs mechanism, and for his research on topological defects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Kibble has received more than 151,578 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tom Kibble is the 647th most popular physicist (down from 632nd in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from India (down from 542nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Tom Kibble ranks 647 out of 717. Before him are Edward Condon, Leonid Sedov, Mark Oliphant, Zoltán Lajos Bay, César Lattes, and Nikolay Umov. After him are Bruno Zumino, Shoichi Sakata, Leona Woods, Aleksandr Andronov, Peter Mark Roget, and Lisa Randall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Tom Kibble ranks 343. Before him are Vasili Kuznetsov, Lodewijk van den Berg, Paul Anderson, Bruce Glover, Raymond Kaelbel, and Richard Mulligan. After him are Howard Hodgkin, Christopher Lasch, Günter Sawitzki, Roger Dumas, Antonio Suárez, and Judy Tyler. Among people deceased in 2016, Tom Kibble ranks 351. Before him are Bobby Vee, Tom M. Apostol, Amelia Bence, Adolf Born, Henning Enoksen, and Piers Sellers. After him are Frano Selak, Burt Kwouk, Roger Dumas, Howard Marks, Hugh O'Brian, and Richard Davalos.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tom Kibble ranks 565 out of 1,493. Before him are Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Girija Devi (1929), Jeetendra (1942), Tim Severin (1940), Pankaj Kapur (1954), and Paddy Ashdown (1941). After him are Medha Patkar (1954), Zakir Hussain (1951), Rani Mukerji (1978), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Kumar Pallana (1918), and Anandiben Patel (1941).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Tom Kibble ranks 9. Before him are Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893). After him are Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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