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Frank Press

1924 - 2020

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Frank Press (December 4, 1924 – January 29, 2020) was an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993). He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth. Press served on the President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and was appointed by President Richard Nixon to the National Science Board. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Press is the 780th most popular physicist (up from 799th in 2019), the 10,517th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,974th in 2019) and the 178th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank Press ranks 780 out of 851. Before him are C. R. Hagen, Julian Barbour, Miguel Alcubierre, Emil Wolf, Egon Orowan, and Harvey Fletcher. After him are Walter Munk, Anatoly Logunov, Henrik Svensmark, James M. Bardeen, Rolf Landauer, and Robert Detweiler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Frank Press ranks 451. Before him are Lennart Magnusson, Annemarie Buchner, Lev Kulidzhanov, Norman Fell, Bianca Maria Piccinino, and Bette Nesmith Graham. After him are Stanley Jaki, Mark Lenard, Sam Jones, Hugh Huxley, Jeremiah Denton, and Jocelyne LaGarde. Among people deceased in 2020, Frank Press ranks 674. Before him are Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, Detto Mariano, Abby Dalton, Nicolas Chumachenco, Herman Cain, and Michael Robinson. After him are Soumitra Chatterjee, Jim Marurai, Georg Volkert, Mike Moore, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, and Beverly Pepper.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Press ranks 10,519 out of 20,380. Before him are Harvey Fletcher (1884), Alphonso Johnson (1951), Jenna Presley (1987), Irma Thomas (1941), Barbara Bates (1925), and David Blackwell (1919). After him are Rudy Tomjanovich (1948), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Karin Slaughter (1971), Cal Tjader (1925), Haley Bennett (1988), and Wanda Hawley (1895).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank Press ranks 178. Before him are Paul Steinhardt (1952), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Robert Marshak (1916), Samuel King Allison (1900), C. R. Hagen (1937), and Harvey Fletcher (1884). After him are James M. Bardeen (1939), Robert Detweiler (1930), Erwin Hahn (1921), Edward C. Stone (1936), Conyers Herring (1914), and Robert L. Forward (1932).

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