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Nicholas Metropolis

1915 - 1999

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Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (Greek: Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος; June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist. Metropolis received his BSc (1937) and PhD in physics (1941, with Robert Mulliken) at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He arrived in Los Alamos in April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Metropolis is the 727th most popular physicist (down from 711th in 2019), the 8,909th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,096th in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 727 out of 851. Before him are Raymond Gosling, Bill Nye, Ernst Ising, Charles Stark Draper, Rudolf Haag, and Boris Borisovich Golitsyn. After him are Gerald Guralnik, Karl Taylor Compton, Walter Gordon, Arthur Schuster, James Hartle, and Gregor Wentzel.

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Among people born in 1915, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 236. Before him are Lamberto Gardelli, Anna Schwartz, Olavi Virta, Barnard Hughes, Billy Strayhorn, and Norman Cousins. After him are Cornelius Warmerdam, Lester del Rey, Ramón Piñeiro López, Brian Shawe-Taylor, Richard Evans Schultes, and Teoctist Arăpașu. Among people deceased in 1999, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 248. Before him are Yuriy Istomin, Sufia Kamal, Paul-Émile de Souza, Sulo Nurmela, Faith Domergue, and Robert Kramer. After him are Mel Tormé, Samiha Khalil, Georges Gandil, Charlie Byrd, Brian Shawe-Taylor, and Basil Hume.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 8,911 out of 20,380. Before him are Ashley Tisdale (1985), Wayne Newton (1942), Bob Ehrlich (1957), Joshua Chamberlain (1828), James Fifer (1930), and Kat Dennings (1986). After him are Frank Shields (1909), Ricky Steamboat (1953), Jack Sholder (1945), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), Angie Harmon (1972), and Chrissy Teigen (1985).

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Among physicists born in United States, Nicholas Metropolis ranks 161. Before him are Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Bill Nye (1955), and Charles Stark Draper (1901). After him are Gerald Guralnik (1936), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), Seymour Benzer (1921), Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), and Robert Bacher (1905).

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