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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 160,868 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Tom Kibble is the 715th most popular physicist (down from 647th in 2019), the 703rd most popular biography from India (down from 561st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Tom Kibble ranks 715 out of 851Before him are Albert W. Hull, Nicholas Metropolis, Bill Nye, Michael Fisher, Juris Upatnieks, and Raymond Gosling. After him are Brandon Carter, Lisa Randall, Arthur Wightman, Peter Mark Roget, Mark Oliphant, and Pief Panofsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Tom Kibble ranks 402Before him are Louis Rwagasore, Joseph P. Kerwin, José Varacka, Elliott H. Lieb, Irma Johansson, and Jan Jindra. After him are Tetsuo Okamoto, James Stafford, Marc Bazin, Eeles Landström, Antonia Fraser, and Muhammad Khan Junejo. Among people deceased in 2016, Tom Kibble ranks 408Before him are Alain Decaux, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Aki Schmidt, Anton Yelchin, Ken Howard, and Alice Drummond. After him are Lothar Späth, Karel Husa, Michael Herr, Teatao Teannaki, Fidel Uriarte, and Joe Alaskey.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tom Kibble ranks 703 out of 1,861Before him are Rakhee Gulzar (1947), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Mehdi Hassan (1927), Soumitra Chatterjee (1935), and Vijay Mallya (1955). After him are Paddy Ashdown (1941), Govinda (1963), Madhavrao I (1745), Dwarkanath Tagore (1794), Naveen Patnaik (1946), and Jasraj (1930).

Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Tom Kibble ranks 9Before him are Anna Mani (1918), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Jayant Narlikar (1938), and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893). After him are Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), and G. N. Ramachandran (1922).