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William Higinbotham

1910 - 1994

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William Alfred Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Higinbotham has received more than 266,807 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. William Higinbotham is the 620th most popular physicist (down from 567th in 2019), the 6,391st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,455th in 2019) and the 129th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Higinbotham ranks 620 out of 717. Before him are Toshiko Yuasa, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph H. Fowler, John C. Slater, Wilhelm Hisinger, and Julius Wess. After him are John Polkinghorne, Alfred Landé, Jan Burgers, Charles Fabry, Ole Jacob Broch, and John Hopkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, William Higinbotham ranks 240. Before him are John Wooden, Else Alfelt, Gennady Voronov, Laurance Rockefeller, Mamadou Dia, and Katalin Karády. After him are Gunnar Fischer, Henry L. Giclas, Tefta Tashko-Koço, Carlo Orlandi, John Hammond, and Alexandru Borbely. Among people deceased in 1994, William Higinbotham ranks 221. Before him are Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Hermann Josef Abs, Jay Miner, Gilbert Roland, Gennady Voronov, and Charlotte Auerbach. After him are Alain Daniélou, Alfredo Pérez, Roger Bocquet, Willem Jacob Luyten, József Háda, and William Wilson Morgan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Higinbotham ranks 6,391 out of 18,182. Before him are Eric Stonestreet (1971), Bill Walton (1952), Brad Delson (1977), Peyton List (1998), Ken Davitian (1953), and Amina Wadud (1952). After him are Eileen Ryan (1927), Gunther Schuller (1925), Dexter Jackson (1969), Evelyn Ashford (1957), Gregory Olsen (1945), and Robert Hays (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, William Higinbotham ranks 129. Before him are Stuart Hameroff (1947), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Harold Brown (1927), Charles Stark Draper (1901), and John C. Slater (1900). After him are Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Frederick Seitz (1911), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Lee Smolin (1955), and Edward Condon (1902).

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