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Sidney Drell

1926 - 2016

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Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics. The Drell–Yan process, which was used to discover the Higgs boson, is partially named for him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Drell is the 816th most popular physicist (up from 827th in 2019), the 13,360th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,538th in 2019) and the 191st most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Sidney Drell ranks 816 out of 851. Before him are Cumrun Vafa, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Daniel Kleppner, Sylvia Fedoruk, Raja Ramanna, and J. Richard Gott. After him are Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Albert-László Barabási, Sabine Hossenfelder, Ernest Moniz, Narinder Singh Kapany, and Carver Mead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Sidney Drell ranks 542. Before him are Ann B. Davis, Lorenzo Wright, June Haver, James Lipton, Audrey Patterson, and Paul Meister. After him are Dennis Wilshaw, Chuck Arnold, Lurleen Wallace, Pete Lovely, Narinder Singh Kapany, and Art Bisch. Among people deceased in 2016, Sidney Drell ranks 560. Before him are Jerry Doyle, Daniel Prodan, Patrick Ekeng, Riki Sorsa, Roger Cicero, and Bernie Worrell. After him are Joe Medicine Crow, Kitty Kallen, José María Rivas, Andy Bathgate, Nicholas Brathwaite, and Pavel Sheremet.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Drell ranks 13,364 out of 20,380. Before him are Lee Greenwood (1942), Geoffrey A. Landis (1955), Deidre Hall (1947), Hank Ballard (1927), Joseph Campanella (1924), and Walt Kelly (1913). After him are Angela Kinsey (1971), Brenda Chapman (1962), Cain Velasquez (1982), Kurt Warner (1971), James S. Voss (1949), and Lowell Thomas (1892).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Sidney Drell ranks 191. Before him are Herbert Goldstein (1922), Stephen L. Adler (1939), Howard Georgi (1947), Arthur Wightman (1922), Daniel Kleppner (1932), and J. Richard Gott (1947). After him are Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922), Ernest Moniz (1944), Carver Mead (1934), Richard A. Muller (1944), John C. Baez (1961), and Jacqueline Hewitt (1958).

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