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Alan Sokal

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Alan David Sokal ( SOH-kəl; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics. Sokal is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text. He also co-authored a paper criticizing the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Sokal is the 480th most popular physicist (up from 514th in 2019), the 4,014th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,144th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Alan Sokal ranks 480 out of 851. Before him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Carlo Rovelli, Heinrich Barkhausen, Pyotr Lebedev, Andrei Linde, and Marian Smoluchowski. After him are Jacques Babinet, Max Abraham, Martin Knudsen, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Johann Heinrich Schulze, and Robert Brout.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Alan Sokal ranks 165. Before him are Mariya Takeuchi, Sherif Ismail, Kelsey Grammer, Alberto Iglesias, Rolf Lassgård, and Howard Jones. After him are Vladimir Sorokin, Alberto Tarantini, Edwin Moses, Judy Davis, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, and Thomas Newman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Sokal ranks 4,014 out of 20,380. Before him are Josh Dallas (1978), Gene Krupa (1909), Gig Young (1913), Mick Mars (1951), Ma Rainey (1886), and Paul Winfield (1939). After him are Maurice Hilleman (1919), Josh Hartnett (1978), Dita Von Teese (1972), Paul Rudd (1969), Aaron Paul (1979), and Horace Greeley (1811).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alan Sokal ranks 102. Before him are Richard C. Tolman (1881), Albert W. Hull (1880), Chester Carlson (1906), Leonard Susskind (1940), Clarence Zener (1905), and Mildred Dresselhaus (1930). After him are Robert Brout (1928), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Serber (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Lester Germer (1896), and Clyde Cowan (1919).

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