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Hertha Ayrton

1854 - 1923

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Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was an English electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hertha Ayrton is the 37th most popular engineer (up from 99th in 2019), the 825th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,370th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hertha Ayrton ranks 37 out of 389. Before her are Jiro Horikoshi, Philo of Byzantium, Albert Göring, Lennart Torstensson, Theodore von Kármán, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. After her are Anthony Fokker, Emil Škoda, Loránd Eötvös, Ildefons Cerdà, Hugo Junkers, and Abram Petrovich Gannibal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hertha Ayrton ranks 17. Before her are Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, George Eastman, Milan I of Serbia, Johannes Rydberg, and Engelbert Humperdinck. After her are Paul von Rennenkampf, Salomon August Andrée, Albert Edelfelt, Moritz Moszkowski, Paul Natorp, and Léo Taxil. Among people deceased in 1923, Hertha Ayrton ranks 23. Before her are Dietrich Eckart, Edward Emerson Barnard, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Pierre Loti, Princess Louise of Prussia, and James Dewar. After her are Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Södergran, Raymond Radiguet, Milena Vukotić, and Charles Proteus Steinmetz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 825 out of 8,785. Before her are Annie Besant (1847), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), James May (1963), Fatboy Slim (1963), and Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388). After her are Colin Maclaurin (1698), Asma al-Assad (1975), Alice Liddell (1852), Nicko McBrain (1952), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), and Louis Wain (1860).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 3. Before her are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806). After her are Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Colin Chapman (1928), Charles George Gordon (1833), Adrian Newey (1958), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), and Patrick Head (1946).

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