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John Hopkinson

1849 - 1898

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John Hopkinson, FRS, (27 July 1849 – 27 August 1898) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE (now the IET) twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics, and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at King's College London, where he was also director of the Siemens Laboratory. Hopkinson's law, the magnetic counterpart to Ohm's law, is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hopkinson is the 750th most popular physicist (down from 676th in 2019), the 4,799th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,767th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Hopkinson ranks 750 out of 851. Before him are Hans Reissner, Hubert Curien, Adriaan Fokker, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, and Stanton T. Friedman. After him are Balfour Stewart, Max Tegmark, Elda Emma Anderson, Mary K. Gaillard, John Pendry, and Brian Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, John Hopkinson ranks 103. Before him are Louis Glineur, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, William Merritt Chase, Horace Lamb, Henry Clay Frick, and August Palm. After him are Abbott Handerson Thayer, Edmund Gosse, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, Aston Webb, Sarat Chandra Das, and William R. Day. Among people deceased in 1898, John Hopkinson ranks 76. Before him are Ángel Ganivet, Karl Knies, Luiza Pesjak, Emil Hartmann, Henry Liddell, and Yelena Polenova. After him are Thomas F. Bayard, Yakov Polonsky, George Grey, Don Carlos Buell, William Rosecrans, and Samuel Plimsoll.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hopkinson ranks 4,800 out of 8,785. Before him are Joe Orton (1933), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Sebastian Cabot (1918), Benjamin White (1997), Billy Bingham (1931), and Alan Sugar (1947). After him are John Clare (1793), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Denis Lawson (1947), Jill Ellis (1966), Jonathan Penrose (1933), and Eric Thompson (1919).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Hopkinson ranks 81. Before him are Michael Green (1946), Brandon Carter (1942), Edward Andrade (1887), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Raymond Gosling (1926), and Peter Mark Roget (1779). After him are Balfour Stewart (1828), John Pendry (1943), Brian Cox (1968), Charles Sheffield (1935), Ronald Drever (1931), and Julian Barbour (1937).

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