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Howard P. Robertson

1903 - 1961

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Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University. Robertson made important contributions to the mathematics of quantum mechanics, general relativity and differential geometry. Applying relativity to cosmology, he independently developed the concept of an expanding universe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard P. Robertson is the 443rd most popular physicist (up from 726th in 2019), the 3,439th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,482nd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Howard P. Robertson ranks 443 out of 851. Before him are Evgeny Lifshitz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Anatoli Bugorski, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Vladimir Chelomey, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. After him are Yuval Ne'eman, John Dollond, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Oppenheimer, Katharine Burr Blodgett, and Ferenc Krausz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Howard P. Robertson ranks 123. Before him are Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Nikolai Voznesensky, Jan de Klerk, Maud Lewis, Cornell Woolrich, and Richard Thomalla. After him are Yeshayahu Leibowitz, W. Ross Ashby, Barbara Hepworth, Walker Evans, Joan Robinson, and Dolores Costello. Among people deceased in 1961, Howard P. Robertson ranks 59. Before him are Nicola Canali, Maya Deren, Paul Ramadier, Grandma Moses, Herbert Pitman, and Hélène Dutrieu. After him are Robert Garrett, Otto Ruge, Ludwik Fleck, Bulbul, Vladimir Sofronitsky, and Morris Travers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard P. Robertson ranks 3,439 out of 20,380. Before him are Drew Barrymore (1975), Don Cheadle (1964), Sylvia Sidney (1910), Besse Cooper (1896), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), and Vitas Gerulaitis (1954). After him are Djuna Barnes (1892), Paul Guilfoyle (1949), Lance Reddick (1962), Donald O'Connor (1925), Christopher Browning (1944), and Dorothy Parker (1893).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Howard P. Robertson ranks 92. Before him are Robert W. Wood (1868), John Mauchly (1907), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Alan Guth (1947), William Stanley Jr. (1858), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901). After him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Albert W. Hull (1880), and Chester Carlson (1906).

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