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Derek J. de Solla Price

1922 - 1983

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Derek John de Solla Price (22 January 1922 – 3 September 1983) was a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist. He was known for his investigation of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek planetary computer, and for quantitative studies on scientific publications, which led to his being described as the "Herald of scientometrics". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Derek J. de Solla Price is the 800th most popular physicist (down from 735th in 2019). (down from 4,345th in 2019)

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Among physicists, Derek J. de Solla Price ranks 800 out of 851. Before him are Conyers Herring, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Werner Israel, Robert L. Forward, Daulat Singh Kothari, and Mazlan Othman. After him are Hedwig Kohn, He Jiankui, William Penney, Baron Penney, G. N. Ramachandran, Herbert Goldstein, and Stephen L. Adler.

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Among people born in 1922, Derek J. de Solla Price ranks 428. Before him are Jesús Iglesias, Ivor Broadis, Joan Copeland, Redd Foxx, Helen Gurley Brown, and Herbert MacKay-Fraser. After him are John B. Anderson, Billy Liddell, Dick King-Smith, Johnny Thomson, Herb McKenley, and Fortune Gordien. Among people deceased in 1983, Derek J. de Solla Price ranks 262. Before him are Kai Winding, Marjorie Cox Crawford, Constantino Urbieta Sosa, Eubie Blake, Marie Mosquini, and Henry M. Jackson. After him are Merle Travis, Terence Cooke, John Le Mesurier, Rezső Somlai, Vic Lindquist, and Harold Stephen Black.

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