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Douglas Hartree

1897 - 1958

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Douglas Rayner Hartree (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Hartree is the 634th most popular mathematician (up from 738th in 2019), the 3,066th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,500th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Douglas Hartree ranks 634 out of 1,004. Before him are Grete Hermann, Dmitri Egorov, Jakob Hermann, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Alfréd Haar, and Al-Qalqashandi. After him are Dinostratus, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, François d'Aguilon, Cahit Arf, Luigi Bianchi, and Ludwig Bieberbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Douglas Hartree ranks 195. Before him are Hersch Lauterpacht, Lya De Putti, Johannes Winkler, Héctor Méndez, Evsei Liberman, and Werner Voss. After him are Zenta Mauriņa, Lya Mara, Rosa Ponselle, Isabelino Gradín, Marion Davies, and Ardito Desio. Among people deceased in 1958, Douglas Hartree ranks 108. Before him are Max Jakob Friedländer, Vittorio Ambrosio, Mike Todd, Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, Karl Arnold, and Zoe Akins. After him are Lydia Lipkowska, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Artur Rodziński, Marcel Cachin, Bart van der Leck, and Haykanoush Danielyan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hartree ranks 3,067 out of 8,785. Before him are James Francis Stephens (1792), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Kelly Brook (1979), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Michael Oakeshott (1901), and Charles Gray (1928). After him are Freddie Jones (1927), Sigeberht of Wessex (750), James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Richard Burbage (1567), and Jude Bellingham (2003).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hartree ranks 66. Before him are William Whiston (1667), Joseph Raphson (1648), Thomas Wright (1711), Henry Dudeney (1857), Sydney Chapman (1888), and James Ivory (1765). After him are John Playfair (1748), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), William Burnside (1852), Robert Simson (1687), John Hadley (1682), and Egon Pearson (1895).

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