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John Henry Poynting

1852 - 1914

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John Henry Poynting FRS (9 September 1852 – 30 March 1914) was an English physicist. He was the first professor of physics at Mason Science College from 1880 to 1900, and then the successor institution, the University of Birmingham until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Henry Poynting is the 425th most popular physicist (down from 391st in 2019), the 1,916th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,492nd in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Henry Poynting ranks 425 out of 851. Before him are Bruno Rossi, Georgy Flyorov, Johann Andreas Segner, John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, and Louis Harold Gray. After him are Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, Raoul Pictet, and Alan Guth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, John Henry Poynting ranks 50. Before him are Leopoldo Alas, Charles W. Fairbanks, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Henri Gervex, Friedrich Loeffler, and Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria. After him are Vera Figner, Bérenger Saunière, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal, Henry van Dyke Jr., and László Mednyánszky. Among people deceased in 1914, John Henry Poynting ranks 51. Before him are Giuseppe Mercalli, Kitty Lange Kielland, Ödön Lechner, Paul Héroult, Theodore Gill, and Ivan Zajc. After him are Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, John Muir, Theodor Lipps, Delmira Agustini, Amélie Lundahl, and Stevan Mokranjac.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Henry Poynting ranks 1,916 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Amis (1949), Charles Macintosh (1766), Peter Vaughan (1923), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Edward Young (1683), and Eleanor of Woodstock (1318). After him are Leonard Woolley (1880), John Skelton (1460), Amy Johnson (1903), Edward the Exile (1016), Pieter de Molijn (1595), and Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Henry Poynting ranks 50. Before him are William Whewell (1794), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Sturgeon (1783), John Kerr (1824), William Watson (1715), and Louis Harold Gray (1905). After him are John Dollond (1706), John Canton (1718), John Houghton (1931), Alfred Ewing (1855), Frederick Guthrie (1833), and G. M. B. Dobson (1889).

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