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Richard E. Taylor

1929 - 2018

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Richard Edward Taylor (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard E. Taylor is the 179th most popular physicist (up from 208th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Canada (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Physicist.

Richard E. Taylor is most famous for his work in the field of nuclear physics. He is credited with the discovery of the particle known as the tau lepton in 1976.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Richard E. Taylor ranks 179 out of 851. Before him are Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, James Jeans, Julius von Mayer, Herbert Kroemer, and Martin Lewis Perl. After him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, Isamu Akasaki, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, and Jerome Isaac Friedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard E. Taylor ranks 33. Before him are Rudolf Mössbauer, Sándor Kocsis, James Hong, Babrak Karmal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Djalma Santos. After him are Isamu Akasaki, Hafizullah Amin, Oriana Fallaci, Werner Arber, Fernanda Montenegro, and Murray Gell-Mann. Among people deceased in 2018, Richard E. Taylor ranks 28. Before him are Stephen Hillenburg, Jean-Louis Tauran, Philip Roth, France Gall, Jens Christian Skou, and Lys Assia. After him are Burton Richter, Günter Blobel, Avicii, Paul Bocuse, Billy Graham, and Paul D. Boyer.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 24 out of 1,622. Before him are Jack L. Warner (1892), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Glenn Gould (1932), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), and Marshall McLuhan (1911). After him are David Cronenberg (1943), Alice Munro (1931), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Ralph M. Steinman (1943), and Eric Berne (1910).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Richard E. Taylor ranks 1. After him are Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Willard Boyle (1924), Jim Peebles (1935), Louis Slotin (1910), Donna Strickland (1959), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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