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John C. Baez

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John Carlos Baez ( BY-ez; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John C. Baez is the 825th most popular physicist (up from 834th in 2019), the 14,035th most popular biography from United States (up from 14,963rd in 2019) and the 196th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John C. Baez ranks 825 out of 851. Before him are Sabine Hossenfelder, Ernest Moniz, Narinder Singh Kapany, Carver Mead, Richard A. Muller, and Gabriele Hegerl. After him are Rohini Godbole, Conny Aerts, Juris Upatnieks, Marcia Barbosa, Gian Francesco Giudice, and Jacqueline Hewitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, John C. Baez ranks 675. Before him are Saskia Reeves, Magda Szubanski, Elzo Coelho, Lee Ju-ho, Mamady Youla, and Kazuyori Mochizuki. After him are Hiroshi Jofuku, Miro Gavran, Andrei Shleifer, Sean Hannity, Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, and Grant Bramwell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Baez ranks 14,039 out of 20,380. Before him are Tamala Jones (1974), Larry Rivers (1923), Hans Conried (1917), Dana Hill (1964), Trini Alvarado (1967), and Colin Cunningham (1966). After him are Carter Cruise (1991), Seth Gabel (1981), Kasey Keller (1969), Michael Fincke (1967), Allisyn Ashley Arm (1996), and Josh Hopkins (1970).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John C. Baez ranks 196. Before him are J. Richard Gott (1947), Sidney Drell (1926), Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922), Ernest Moniz (1944), Carver Mead (1934), and Richard A. Muller (1944). After him are Jacqueline Hewitt (1958), Victoria Kaspi (1967), Deborah S. Jin (1968), Paul Ginsparg (1955), Charles L. Bennett (1956), and Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972).

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