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John Dollond

1706 - 1761

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John Dollond (21 June [O.S. 10 June] 1706 – 30 November 1761) was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Dollond is the 445th most popular physicist (down from 408th in 2019), the 2,056th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,623rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Dollond ranks 445 out of 851. Before him are Anatoli Bugorski, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Vladimir Chelomey, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Howard P. Robertson, and Yuval Ne'eman. After him are Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Oppenheimer, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Ferenc Krausz, Richard C. Tolman, and Albert W. Hull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, John Dollond ranks 7. Before him are Benjamin Franklin, Émilie du Châtelet, Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, and Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis. After him are John Baskerville, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Giuseppe Asclepi, and John Belchier. Among people deceased in 1761, John Dollond ranks 14. Before him are Tokugawa Ieshige, Balaji Baji Rao, Clemens August of Bavaria, Pierre Fauchard, Tarabai, and Thomas Simpson. After him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Francesco Feo, Giovanni Poleni, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Johann Georg Pinsel, and Kelemen Mikes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Dollond ranks 2,056 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Smith (1980), Jared Harris (1961), John Morton (1420), Noël Coward (1899), Black (1962), and Frances de la Tour (1944). After him are Richard Dannatt (1950), Tricky (1968), Barbara Hepworth (1903), William Cullen (1710), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), and James Boswell (1740).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Dollond ranks 51. Before him are Duncan Haldane (1951), William Sturgeon (1783), John Kerr (1824), William Watson (1715), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and John Henry Poynting (1852). After him are John Canton (1718), John Houghton (1931), Alfred Ewing (1855), Frederick Guthrie (1833), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), and John Leslie (1766).

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