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The most famous Academics tagged #20th Century in United States

The most publicly visible academics in United States associated with 20th Century.

Most famous

The most famous academics in United States associated with 20th Century — ranked by the public attention they command right now.

United StatesAcademics#20th CenturyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Neil Armstrong	United States	Academics	90.8	0.8
#2	new	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#3	new	Milton Friedman	United States	Academics	73.8	0.0
#4	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Academics	73.7	0.0
#5	new	Kurt Gödel	United States	Academics	73.2	15.0
#6	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Academics	72.4	18.4
#7	new	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Academics	70.9	29.6
#8	new	Theodor W. Adorno	United States	Academics	70.8	15.0
#9	new	Paul Ekman	United States	Academics	69.8	0.7
#10	new	Margaret Mead	United States	Academics	68.5	10.0
#11	new	Paul Samuelson	United States	Academics	67.7	10.0
#12	new	Ted Kaczynski	United States	Academics	65.1	2.2
#13	new	Abraham Maslow	United States	Academics	64.8	0.0
#14	new	Elinor Ostrom	United States	Academics	64.1	0.0
#15	new	John Rawls	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#16	new	Joseph Stiglitz	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#17	new	Herbert A. Simon	United States	Academics	61.6	15.2
#18	new	Gertrude B. Elion	United States	Academics	61.4	0.0
#19	new	Dian Fossey	United States	Academics	60.9	0.6
#20	new	Ludwig von Mises	United States	Academics	60.6	0.0
#21	new	Samuel P. Huntington	United States	Academics	60.5	0.0
#22	new	Bernie Madoff	United States	Academics	60.3	0.0
#23	new	Zbigniew Brzezinski	United States	Academics	60.1	0.0
#24	new	Norbert Wiener	United States	Academics	59.8	0.2
#25	new	Claude Shannon	United States	Academics	59.1	0.0
#26	new	Linda B. Buck	United States	Academics	59.0	0.0
#27	new	Willard Van Orman Quine	United States	Academics	58.8	15.2
#28	new	Jody Williams	United States	Academics	58.7	0.0
#29	new	Robert K. Merton	United States	Academics	58.2	15.1
#30	new	Carlos Castaneda	United States	Academics	58.1	0.3
#31	new	William James Sidis	United States	Academics	57.9	0.0
#32	new	Howard Gardner	United States	Academics	57.8	4.8
#33	new	John McCarthy	United States	Academics	57.3	0.0
#34	new	Jerome Bruner	United States	Academics	57.1	5.0
#35	new	Jim Simons	United States	Academics	57.0	0.0
#36	new	Margaret Hamilton	United States	Academics	56.8	0.0
#37	new	Ben Roy Mottelson	United States	Academics	56.5	1.2
#38	new	George Shultz	United States	Academics	56.1	0.0
#39	new	Charles Francis Richter	United States	Academics	56.0	0.6
#40	new	Talcott Parsons	United States	Academics	55.8	1.0
#41	new	Gordon Allport	United States	Academics	55.7	2.4
#42	new	Aaron T. Beck	United States	Academics	55.3	0.9
#43	new	Michael Porter	United States	Academics	55.2	0.0
#44	new	Irwin Rose	United States	Academics	54.9	5.8
#45	new	Joseph Murray	United States	Doctors	54.9	3.2
#46	new	Val Logsdon Fitch	United States	Academics	54.8	1.0
#47	new	Robert A. Dahl	United States	Academics	54.4	0.0
#48	new	Robert Lucas Jr.	United States	Academics	54.3	0.0
#49	new	Donald Davidson	United States	Academics	54.3	0.0
#50	new	Frederick Chapman Robbins	United States	Doctors	54.1	8.1
#51	new	William F. Sharpe	United States	Academics	54.1	0.0
#52	new	Barry Barish	United States	Academics	53.9	0.2
#53	new	Daniel Carleton Gajdusek	United States	Doctors	53.7	0.0
#54	new	Herbert A. Hauptman	United States	Academics	53.6	2.9
#55	new	George Beadle	United States	Academics	53.3	0.0
#56	new	A. L. Kroeber	United States	Academics	53.1	0.0
#57	new	Stanford Moore	United States	Scientists	53.0	3.5
#58	new	Vincent du Vigneaud	United States	Academics	52.3	0.9