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Robert Detweiler

1930 - 2003

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Robert Detweiler (20 July 1930 – 8 December 2003) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist of solid state physics. He won a gold medal in the men's eight at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team. After the Olympics, Detweiler became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Detweiler is the 786th most popular physicist (up from 797th in 2019), the 10,944th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,855th in 2019) and the 180th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Detweiler ranks 786 out of 851. Before him are Frank Press, Walter Munk, Anatoly Logunov, Henrik Svensmark, James M. Bardeen, and Rolf Landauer. After him are Thibault Damour, Erwin Hahn, Abhay Ashtekar, Jeffrey Goldstone, Edward C. Stone, and Sverker Johansson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Robert Detweiler ranks 572. Before him are Jim Nabors, Maureen Forrester, Ty Hardin, James Dunbar, George Steinbrenner, and Mike Sparken. After him are Richard A. Falk, Ed Thigpen, Gordon Pinsent, Ronald Stretton, Adebayo Adedeji, and Nikolai Puchkov. Among people deceased in 2003, Robert Detweiler ranks 334. Before him are Vera Zorina, Dave DeBusschere, Edward F. Moore, Peter Hacks, Jan-Just Bos, and Éva Janikovszky. After him are Robert John Braidwood, Lou Harrison, C. Douglas Dillon, Sheb Wooley, Karen Morley, and Sultan Rakhmanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Detweiler ranks 10,946 out of 20,380. Before him are Lou Williams (1986), Bridget Regan (1982), Johnny Unitas (1933), Peter Shor (1959), Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (1946), and Jim Hall (1935). After him are Shannon Leto (1970), Dustin Poirier (1989), Ashlyn Gere (1959), Spencer Cox (1975), Lester Bird (1938), and Laila Robins (1959).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Detweiler ranks 180. Before him are Robert Marshak (1916), Samuel King Allison (1900), C. R. Hagen (1937), Harvey Fletcher (1884), Frank Press (1924), and James M. Bardeen (1939). After him are Erwin Hahn (1921), Edward C. Stone (1936), Conyers Herring (1914), Robert L. Forward (1932), Herbert Goldstein (1922), and Stephen L. Adler (1939).

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