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Douglas Hofstadter

1945 - Today

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Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Hofstadter is the 446th most popular physicist (down from 431st in 2019), the 3,509th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,924th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 446 out of 851. Before him are Robert J. Van de Graaff, Vladimir Chelomey, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Howard P. Robertson, Yuval Ne'eman, and John Dollond. After him are Frank Oppenheimer, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Ferenc Krausz, Richard C. Tolman, Albert W. Hull, and Chester Carlson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 222. Before him are Neophyte of Bulgaria, Dennis Nilsen, Pat Riley, Don McLean, Leonid Popov, and Curtis Hanson. After him are Richard Armitage, Basil Poledouris, Stephen Stills, Francesca Annis, Wilfried Van Moer, and Roger Chartier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 3,509 out of 20,380. Before him are Madeleine Astor (1893), Chuck Schumer (1950), William Wakefield Baum (1926), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Jared Kushner (1981), and Fritz Leiber (1910). After him are Johnny Carson (1925), Cy Young (1928), Billie Burke (1884), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Cheech Marin (1946), and Charles Lane (1905).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Douglas Hofstadter ranks 93. Before him are John Mauchly (1907), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Alan Guth (1947), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), and Howard P. Robertson (1903). After him are Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Albert W. Hull (1880), Chester Carlson (1906), and Leonard Susskind (1940).

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