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Edwin Thompson Jaynes

1922 - 1998

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Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5, 1922 – April 30, 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the maximum entropy interpretation of thermodynamics as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Thompson Jaynes is the 817th most popular physicist (down from 804th in 2019), the 13,391st most popular biography from United States (down from 12,213th in 2019) and the 192nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 817 out of 851. Before him are Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Daniel Kleppner, Sylvia Fedoruk, Raja Ramanna, J. Richard Gott, and Sidney Drell. After him are Albert-László Barabási, Sabine Hossenfelder, Ernest Moniz, Narinder Singh Kapany, Carver Mead, and Richard A. Muller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 445. Before him are Bill Macy, Norman Lear, Arthur Wightman, Bernard Bailyn, Frank Spellman, and Ken Hughes. After him are Gil Merrick, Andy Phillip, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Meadows, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, and Graham Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1998, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 319. Before him are Esther Rolle, Bill Reid, Binnie Barnes, Richard Denning, Reidar Kvammen, and Catherine Cookson. After him are Donald Woods, Voitto Hellsten, Tony Shelly, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Buddy Jeannette, and Syd Owen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 13,395 out of 20,380. Before him are Jsu Garcia (1963), Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (1969), Joe Medicine Crow (1913), Tony Meola (1969), Joseph Pevney (1911), and Gervonta Davis (1994). After him are Raekwon (1970), Rena Sofer (1968), Muhal Richard Abrams (1930), John Laurinaitis (1962), KaDee Strickland (1975), and Milton Latham (1827).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edwin Thompson Jaynes ranks 192. Before him are Stephen L. Adler (1939), Howard Georgi (1947), Arthur Wightman (1922), Daniel Kleppner (1932), J. Richard Gott (1947), and Sidney Drell (1926). After him are Ernest Moniz (1944), Carver Mead (1934), Richard A. Muller (1944), John C. Baez (1961), Jacqueline Hewitt (1958), and Victoria Kaspi (1967).

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