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Bill Nye

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William Sanford Nye (; born November 27, 1955) is an American science communicator, television presenter, and former mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the science education television show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1999) and as a science educator in pop culture. Born in Washington, D.C., Nye began his career as a mechanical engineer for Boeing in Seattle, where he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on 747 airplanes. In 1986, he left Boeing to pursue comedy, writing and performing for the local sketch television show Almost Live!, where he regularly conducted wacky scientific experiments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Nye is the 722nd most popular physicist (down from 712th in 2019), the 8,811th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,102nd in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Bill Nye ranks 722 out of 851. Before him are Charlotte Froese Fischer, Bruno Zumino, Elliott H. Lieb, Alexei Starobinsky, Stuart Hameroff, and Raymond Gosling. After him are Ernst Ising, Charles Stark Draper, Rudolf Haag, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Nicholas Metropolis, and Gerald Guralnik.

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Among people born in 1955, Bill Nye ranks 386. Before him are Aires Ali, Laura Fygi, Cassandra Wilson, Julie Hagerty, Val McDermid, and Ian Botham. After him are Glenne Headly, Christian Estrosi, Gilles Kepel, Franco Tancredi, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, and Güler Sabancı.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Nye ranks 8,813 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Banneker (1731), Laura San Giacomo (1962), Amar Bose (1929), Brian Gottfried (1952), Elizabeth Ashley (1939), and Nancy Richey (1942). After him are Jesse Helms (1921), Mary Alden (1883), William Healey Dall (1845), Clifford Robinson (1966), Gaylord Nelson (1916), and Shane Dawson (1988).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Bill Nye ranks 159. Before him are William D. Coolidge (1873), Harold Agnew (1921), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), and Stuart Hameroff (1947). After him are Charles Stark Draper (1901), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), and Seymour Benzer (1921).

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