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John G. Trump

1907 - 1985

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John George Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and teacher who designed high-voltage generators and pioneered their use in cancer treatment, nuclear science, and manufacturing. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he led high-voltage research and co-founded the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, a particle accelerator manufacturer. He was the paternal uncle of President Donald Trump. As Robert Van de Graaff's first PhD student, Trump worked on insulation technique that made Van de Graaff's generators smaller and installable at hospitals for x-ray cancer therapy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John G. Trump is the 348th most popular physicist (up from 557th in 2019), the 2,101st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,846th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John G. Trump ranks 348 out of 851. Before him are Stephen Hales, Giorgio Parisi, Joseph Swan, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Yakov Zeldovich, and Walther Gerlach. After him are Theodore Lyman IV, Ami Argand, Auguste Bravais, Louis Poinsot, Hans Kramers, and Jean-Charles de Borda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, John G. Trump ranks 82. Before him are Giovanni Ferrari, Hans Martin Sutermeister, Daigoro Kondo, Albert Gore Sr., Pierre Mendès France, and Fabian von Schlabrendorff. After him are Jan Patočka, Marcel Bezençon, Mehdi Bazargan, Jean Hyppolite, Franz Jägerstätter, and René Char. Among people deceased in 1985, John G. Trump ranks 45. Before him are Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Kirill Moskalenko, Henry Hathaway, The Singing Nun, Ian Stewart, and Abe Lenstra. After him are Kiki Camarena, Donald O. Hebb, Méret Oppenheim, Alexander Pokryshkin, Ruth Gordon, and Lina Heydrich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John G. Trump ranks 2,101 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Diamond (1940), Charles W. Morris (1903), George Takei (1937), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Alice Walker (1944), and Henry Hartsfield (1933). After him are Dorothy Malone (1924), James Pickens Jr. (1954), Kirk Hammett (1962), Sonny Bono (1935), Harlow Shapley (1885), and La Toya Jackson (1956).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John G. Trump ranks 74. Before him are Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Steven Chu (1948), Carl Wieman (1951), and Robert B. Laughlin (1950). After him are Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Frank Wilczek (1951), Nathan Rosen (1909), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Edward Witten (1951), and Walter A. Shewhart (1891).

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