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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

1899 - 1980

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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (; March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck is the 264th most popular physicist (down from 262nd in 2019), the 1,168th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,062nd in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Physicist.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 264 out of 851. Before him are Abdus Salam, Chien-Shiung Wu, Serge Haroche, Julian Schwinger, Toshihide Maskawa, and Carlo Rubbia. After him are Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, Johannes Rydberg, Jack Steinberger, Yang Chen-Ning, and David J. Wineland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 40. Before him are Chang Myon, Cevdet Sunay, Alfred Schütz, Ferhat Abbas, Erwin Bowien, and Gloria Swanson. After him are Charles Best, Emma Morano, Charles Laughton, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Jean Moulin, and James Cagney. Among people deceased in 1980, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 42. Before him are Hans Morgenthau, Oswald Mosley, C. P. Snow, Hans Asperger, Gregory Bateson, and Robert Whittaker. After him are Bill Evans, Marian Rejewski, Kim Jae-gyu, Gustav Wagner, Lewis Milestone, and Salah al-Din al-Bitar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 1,168 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Toni Braxton (1967), George O. Abell (1927), Matthew C. Perry (1794), Frank Caprio (1936), and Sugar Ray Robinson (1921). After him are Charles Best (1899), John Dos Passos (1896), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), Clifford Geertz (1926), and Bill Evans (1929).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ranks 58. Before him are Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Benjamin Thompson (1753), Leon M. Lederman (1922), John L. Hall (1934), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), and Julian Schwinger (1918). After him are David J. Wineland (1944), John C. Mather (1946), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), David Gross (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), and Ash Carter (1954).

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