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William Daniel Phillips

1948 - Today

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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Daniel Phillips has received more than 232,012 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). William Daniel Phillips is the 301st most popular physicist (down from 295th in 2019), the 1,430th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,559th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Daniel Phillips ranks 301 out of 851. Before him are Pascual Jordan, Qian Xuesen, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Armen Sarkissian, John Tyndall, and George Smoot. After him are Freeman Dyson, Andre Geim, Giorgio Parisi, Jack Steinberger, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and Hélène Langevin-Joliot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, William Daniel Phillips ranks 80. Before him are Nathalie Baye, Alia Al-Hussein, Ray Kurzweil, René Arnoux, Dan Simmons, and Hartmut Michel. After him are Beppe Grillo, Giorgio Parisi, Siim Kallas, Ruud Geels, Pedro López, and Mahesh Bhatt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Daniel Phillips ranks 1,430 out of 20,380. Before him are Hal Holbrook (1925), George Smoot (1945), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Henry Rollins (1961), Hiram Maxim (1840), and Neil Diamond (1941). After him are Beck (1970), Daniel Dennett (1942), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), Ron Howard (1954), Harold Perrineau (1963), and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, William Daniel Phillips ranks 61. Before him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), and George Smoot (1945). After him are David Gross (1941), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John C. Mather (1946), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936).

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