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Robert J. Van de Graaff

1901 - 1967

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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (December 20, 1901 – January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high-voltage Van de Graaff generators. He spent most of his career in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert J. Van de Graaff is the 440th most popular physicist (down from 429th in 2019), the 3,413th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,902nd in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 440 out of 851. Before him are Walther Ritz, William Stanley Jr., Walther Meissner, Evgeny Lifshitz, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and Anatoli Bugorski. After him are Vladimir Chelomey, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Howard P. Robertson, Yuval Ne'eman, John Dollond, and Douglas Hofstadter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 118. Before him are Maxwell D. Taylor, Nina Berberova, Fred Uhlman, Jean Prouvé, Otto Wächter, and Manuel Urrutia Lleó. After him are Wolfgang Schmieder, Karl-August Fagerholm, Ed Sullivan, Alexander Fadeyev, Vladimir Sofronitsky, and Pavel Rotmistrov. Among people deceased in 1967, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 102. Before him are Pierre Jeanneret, Juliusz Rómmel, Wolf Albach-Retty, Zbigniew Cybulski, Franz Waxman, and Walter Weiß. After him are Dorothy Parker, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Ferenc Münnich, Ivan Isakov, Luis Somoza Debayle, and Martine Carol.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 3,413 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Tucker (1854), Curtis Hanson (1945), Howard S. Becker (1928), Artie Shaw (1910), Lionel Hampton (1908), and Jacques Futrelle (1875). After him are P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Randy Quaid (1950), Alex North (1910), Sal Khan (1976), and Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert J. Van de Graaff ranks 91. Before him are Lyman Spitzer (1914), Robert W. Wood (1868), John Mauchly (1907), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Alan Guth (1947), and William Stanley Jr. (1858). After him are Howard P. Robertson (1903), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), and Albert W. Hull (1880).

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