PHYSICIST

Charles Galton Darwin

1887 - 1962

Photo of Charles Galton Darwin

Icon of person Charles Galton Darwin

Sir Charles Galton Darwin (19 December 1887 – 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was a son of the mathematician George Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Galton Darwin is the 501st most popular physicist (down from 438th in 2019), the 3,223rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,521st in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Charles Galton Darwin by language

Loading...

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 501 out of 851. Before him are Heinrich Rubens, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Emil Warburg, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, and Robert Serber. After him are Alfred Ewing, Eugen Goldstein, Gaspard de Prony, Giovanni Aldini, Pierre Victor Auger, and Dmitri Ivanenko.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 133. Before him are Paula von Preradović, Vincent Massey, Jean Patou, Rudolf Beran, Pavel Postyshev, and Arthur Cravan. After him are Patrick O'Connell, Leo Spitzer, Alexander Vandegrift, Les Kurbas, Adone Zoli, and M. N. Roy. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 102. Before him are Franz Konwitschny, Franz Kline, José Giral, Max Vasmer, Karl Rapp, and György Orth. After him are Luigi Carnera, Paavo Aaltonen, Candido Portinari, Richard Herrmann, Hermann Muhs, and Pierre Benoit.

Others Born in 1887

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1962

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 3,225 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), Princess Isabella of Croÿ (1856), Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1722), Max Wünsche (1914), and Richard Hildebrandt (1897). After him are Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1712), Rainald of Dassel (1114), and Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (1468).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 75. Before him are Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), and Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886). After him are August Beer (1825), Pief Panofsky (1919), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Ursula Franklin (1921), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), and Otto Lehmann (1855).

German born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous