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John Stewart Bell

1928 - 1990

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John Stewart Bell (28 July 1928 – 1 October 1990) was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for work on Bell inequalities and the experimental validation of Bell's theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Stewart Bell is the 324th most popular physicist (up from 340th in 2019), the 1,115th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Stewart Bell ranks 324 out of 851. Before him are Shuji Nakamura, Félix Savart, John Tyndall, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Charles Fabry, and Alexey Ekimov. After him are Armen Sarkissian, Ludwig Prandtl, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Marguerite Perey, Paul-Jacques Curie, and Giovanni Battista Venturi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, John Stewart Bell ranks 89. Before him are Elias James Corey, Manfred Rommel, Bernard Cribbins, Robert Sheckley, Wolfgang von Trips, and Burt Bacharach. After him are Patrick McGoohan, Walter Mondale, Pierre Mauroy, Jim Lovell, Colin Chapman, and Erik Bruhn. Among people deceased in 1990, John Stewart Bell ranks 50. Before him are Ugo Tognazzi, Angelo Schiavio, Capucine, Viktor Tsoi, Ivan Serov, and Aaron Copland. After him are Robert Noyce, Alexander Pechersky, Reinaldo Arenas, Delphine Seyrig, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and Edward A. Murphy Jr..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Stewart Bell ranks 1,115 out of 8,785. Before him are Bernard Cribbins (1928), Bruno (null), Keith Emerson (1944), Eric Burdon (1941), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), and Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852). After him are Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), John William Polidori (1795), James Oglethorpe (1696), Melanie C (1974), Roy Harper (1941), and Mike Newell (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Stewart Bell ranks 41. Before him are Anthony James Leggett (1938), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Peter Mansfield (1933), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Freeman Dyson (1923), and Dennis W. Sciama (1926). After him are Stephen Hales (1677), Joseph Swan (1828), William Whewell (1794), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Sturgeon (1783), and John Kerr (1824).

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