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Charles Sheffield

1935 - 2002

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Charles Sheffield (25 June 1935 – 2 November 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist, and science-fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society. His novel The Web Between the Worlds, featuring the construction of a space elevator, was published almost simultaneously with Arthur C. Clarke's novel on the subject, The Fountains of Paradise - a coincidence that amused them both. Excerpts from both Sheffield's The Web Between the Worlds and Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise have appeared recently in a space-elevator anthology, Towering Yarns. Sheffield served as Chief Scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation, a company that processed remote-sensing satellite data. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Sheffield is the 761st most popular physicist (up from 772nd in 2019), the 4,928th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,106th in 2019) and the 85th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Sheffield ranks 761 out of 851. Before him are John Pendry, Brian Cox, Frank Benford, Paul Steinhardt, Jacques Friedel, and Lene Hau. After him are Bertrand Halperin, Peter Zoller, Léon Rosenfeld, Leonid Sedov, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, and Robert Marshak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Charles Sheffield ranks 463. Before him are A. J. Foyt, Bertil Johansson, Sun Axelsson, Roberto Sosa, Michael Wheeler, and Mal Anderson. After him are Judy Parfitt, Leonid Potapov, Óscar Chávez, Phil Donahue, Mitsuo Ikeda, and Imre Farkas. Among people deceased in 2002, Charles Sheffield ranks 297. Before him are Jovdat Hajiyev, Willie Davenport, Ivano Blason, Geoffrey Crossley, Tadeusz Rut, and Jerome Biffle. After him are Bob Hayes, Katrin Cartlidge, Lotfia Elnadi, Mitsuo Ikeda, Sergei Bodrov Jr., and Desmond Hoyte.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Sheffield ranks 4,929 out of 8,785. Before him are Archie Stark (1897), Norma Varden (1898), David Storey (1933), Hugh Gaitskell (1906), Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864), and John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751). After him are John Butler Yeats (1839), Richard Overy (1947), O. T. Fagbenle (1980), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), Derek Bailey (1930), and Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Sheffield ranks 85. Before him are Raymond Gosling (1926), Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Hopkinson (1849), Balfour Stewart (1828), John Pendry (1943), and Brian Cox (1968). After him are Ronald Drever (1931), Julian Barbour (1937), Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Aitken (1839), Alan Cottrell (1919), and Jess Wade (1988).

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