PHYSICIST

Joan Feynman

1927 - 2020

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Joan Feynman (March 31, 1927 – July 21, 2020) was an American astrophysicist and space physicist. She made contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields, sun-Earth relations, and magnetospheric physics. She was known for creating a model that predicts the number of high-energy particles likely to hit a spacecraft over its lifetime, and for uncovering a method for predicting sunspot cycles. She was particularly known for illuminating the origin of auroras. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Feynman is the 647th most popular physicist (down from 596th in 2019), the 7,092nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,590th in 2019) and the 138th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joan Feynman ranks 647 out of 851. Before her are Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Harold Brown, Jan Burgers, Sidney Coleman, Marcia Neugebauer, and Barys Kit. After her are César Lattes, Charles W. Misner, John Polkinghorne, Christian Møller, Giovanni Giorgi, and Bernard Lovell.

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Among people born in 1927, Joan Feynman ranks 313. Before her are Pasqualino De Santis, Alex Katz, Harold Brown, Endel Tulving, Clint Walker, and Shoji Nishio. After her are Dick Savitt, Heinz Wewers, Don Revie, Boris Shilkov, Corín Tellado, and Robert Alt. Among people deceased in 2020, Joan Feynman ranks 439. Before her are Tom Belsø, Nate Brooks, Vaughan Jones, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Ulla Pia, and Brent Scowcroft. After her are Ernst Jean-Joseph, Laisenia Qarase, Claire Bretécher, José Luis Capón, Hau Pei-tsun, and Günter Sawitzki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joan Feynman ranks 7,094 out of 20,380. Before her are Aaron Sorkin (1961), Eve Arden (1908), Donald Fagen (1948), Mena Suvari (1979), Boz Scaggs (1944), and Khandi Alexander (1957). After her are Spencer Tunick (1967), John M. Clayton (1796), Billy Barty (1924), Thomas Ligotti (1953), Terry Moore (1929), and C. Gordon Fullerton (1936).

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Among physicists born in United States, Joan Feynman ranks 138. Before her are James Hansen (1941), Gordon Gould (1920), Lee Smolin (1955), Harold Brown (1927), Sidney Coleman (1937), and Marcia Neugebauer (1932). After her are Charles W. Misner (1932), William Higinbotham (1910), Edward Condon (1902), Brian Greene (1963), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), and Edith Clarke (1883).

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