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John Aitken

1839 - 1919

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John Aitken, FRS, FRSE LLD (18 September 1839 – 14 November 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Aitken is the 793rd most popular physicist (down from 737th in 2019), the 5,415th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,479th in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Aitken ranks 793 out of 851. Before him are Thibault Damour, Erwin Hahn, Abhay Ashtekar, Jeffrey Goldstone, Edward C. Stone, and Sverker Johansson. After him are Conyers Herring, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Werner Israel, Robert L. Forward, Daulat Singh Kothari, and Mazlan Othman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, John Aitken ranks 93. Before him are Casimiro de Abreu, Ivan Kuratov, William T. Anderson, John Ballance, John Butler Yeats, and Redvers Buller. After him are Robert Smalls, and Oliver Hazard Payne. Among people deceased in 1919, John Aitken ranks 154. Before him are Hermann Lietz, Theo de Meester, Horatio Parker, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, J. Alden Weir, and George Eyser. After him are Abraham Jacobi, Phoebe Hearst, and Anna Howard Shaw.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Aitken ranks 5,417 out of 8,785. Before him are Stuart Taylor (1980), Monty Norman (1928), Naomi Scott (1993), Chris Dreja (1945), Sandra Chick (1947), and Valerie Davies (1912). After him are Michael Portillo (1953), Ian Wallace (1946), Hubert Gough (1870), Trevor Goddard (1962), John Lynch (1961), and John Graves Simcoe (1752).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Aitken ranks 89. Before him are John Pendry (1943), Brian Cox (1968), Charles Sheffield (1935), Ronald Drever (1931), Julian Barbour (1937), and Jeffrey Goldstone (1933). After him are Alan Cottrell (1919), and Jess Wade (1988).

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