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Frederick Scott Archer

1813 - 1857

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Frederick Scott Archer (1813 – 1 May 1857) was an English photographer and sculptor who is best known for having invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. He was born in either Bishop's Stortford or Hertford, within the county of Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) and is remembered mainly for this single achievement which greatly increased the accessibility of photography for the general public. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Scott Archer is the 278th most popular inventor (down from 263rd in 2019), the 3,009th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,553rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 278 out of 426. Before him are Léon Gaumont, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Jacob W. Davis, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Alexander Bain, and James Nasmyth. After him are Robert Cornelius, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, Valerie Thomas, and Joseph Whitworth.

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Among people born in 1813, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 52. Before him are Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, Antonio García Gutiérrez, John C. Frémont, Theodor Kotschy, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, and Nikolay Ogarev. After him are Isidore Pils, Charles Blanc, Prince August of Württemberg, Otto Ludwig, Japetus Steenstrup, and Stephen A. Douglas. Among people deceased in 1857, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 51. Before him are Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Juan Lindo, Johann Schweigger, and Abe Masahiro. After him are Elisha Kent Kane, Johann Georg Hiedler, Stefano Franscini, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Karol Kurpiński, and Louis McLane.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 3,010 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Mayle (1939), John Richardson (1787), Naveen Andrews (1969), Shaun Murphy (1982), Minnie Driver (1970), and Philip Barker-Webb (1793). After him are Martin Peters (1943), Wulfhere of Mercia (650), Paul Greengrass (1955), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), Leslie Phillips (1924), and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 45. Before him are Clive Sinclair (1940), Arthur Wynne (1871), John Barnard (1946), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Alexander Bain (1810), and James Nasmyth (1808). After him are Joseph Aspdin (1778), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Samuel Morland (1625), George Graham (1673), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), and Abraham Darby I (1678).

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