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Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875

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Sir Charles Wheatstone (; 6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875) was an English physicist and inventor best known for his contributions to the development of the Wheatstone bridge, originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistance, and as a major figure in the development of telegraphy. His other contributions include the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images) and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Wheatstone is the 289th most popular physicist (down from 254th in 2019), the 925th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 696th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Physicist.

Charles Wheatstone is most famous for inventing the Wheatstone bridge, which is a device used to measure electrical resistance.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Wheatstone ranks 289 out of 851. Before him are Peter Mansfield, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Antoine César Becquerel, Ash Carter, Syukuro Manabe, and Joseph Plateau. After him are Ernest Walton, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Clauser, Anne L'Huillier, Harry Daghlian, and Abdul Qadeer Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Charles Wheatstone ranks 12. Before him are Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Wilhelm Hauff. After him are Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Pavel Nakhimov, Hermann Goldschmidt, Nikolaus Lenau, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. Among people deceased in 1875, Charles Wheatstone ranks 13. Before him are Andrew Johnson, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. After him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Moses Hess, Heinrich Schwabe, and Amalia of Oldenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Wheatstone ranks 925 out of 8,785. Before him are David A. Stewart (1952), George Gissing (1857), Ronnie Wood (1947), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), George Smith (1840), and David Coverdale (1951). After him are William Wilberforce (1759), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Henry Walter Bates (1825), E. M. Forster (1879), and William Parry (1790).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Wheatstone ranks 38. Before him are William Shockley (1910), C. P. Snow (1905), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Daniel Rutherford (1749), and Peter Mansfield (1933). After him are Freeman Dyson (1923), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Stewart Bell (1928), Stephen Hales (1677), Joseph Swan (1828), and William Whewell (1794).

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