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Cumrun Vafa

1960 - Today

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Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, Persian pronunciation: [kɒːmˈrɒːn væˈfɒː]; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cumrun Vafa is the 810th most popular physicist (down from 792nd in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from Iran (down from 448th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Physicist. Learn more about Cumrun Vafa's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Cumrun Vafa ranks 810 out of 851. Before him are G. N. Ramachandran, Herbert Goldstein, Stephen L. Adler, Alan Cottrell, Howard Georgi, and Arthur Wightman. After him are Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Daniel Kleppner, Sylvia Fedoruk, Raja Ramanna, J. Richard Gott, and Sidney Drell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Cumrun Vafa ranks 578. Before him are Peter Pišťanek, Olena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, Christian Engström, Rivo Rakotovao, Kara Wai, and Aécio Neves. After him are Ljubomir Radanović, Bruce Baumgartner, Seiko Noda, Konstantin Volkov, Éric Caritoux, and Chuck D.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Cumrun Vafa ranks 454 out of 631. Before him are Ali Karimi (1978), Hossein Alizadeh (1951), Ali Divandari (1957), Marina Nemat (1965), Javad Nekounam (1980), and Karim Bagheri (1974). After him are Hassan Rowshan (1955), Mahmoud Namjoo (1918), Jasmin Tabatabai (1967), Shohreh (1959), Maryam Namazie (1966), and Khodadad Azizi (1971).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Iran

Among physicists born in Iran, Cumrun Vafa ranks 3. Before him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (1958), and Ali Javan (1926).

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