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John Kerr

1824 - 1907

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John Kerr FRS (; 17 December 1824 – 15 August 1907) was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Kerr is the 397th most popular physicist (up from 471st in 2019), the 1,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,997th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Kerr ranks 397 out of 851. Before him are Léon Brillouin, Hiroshi Amano, Moritz von Jacobi, Walter A. Shewhart, Stefan Hell, and Jean-Antoine Nollet. After him are Arpad Elo, George Uhlenbeck, Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, and Friedrich Ernst Dorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, John Kerr ranks 32. Before him are Tokugawa Iesada, George Speck, Leland Stanford, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Jozef Israëls, and Adolphe Monticelli. After him are Levi P. Morton, Kuno Fischer, George MacDonald, Heinrich Hofmann, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, and Gustave Boulanger. Among people deceased in 1907, John Kerr ranks 37. Before him are William Henry Perkin, Franz Sacher, Carola of Vasa, Mizzi Kaspar, Stanisław Wyspiański, and Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kurmanjan Datka, Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, René Pottier, Kuno Fischer, and Marko Vovchok.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Kerr ranks 1,671 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Turner Bennett (1797), Paul Ritter (1966), John Christopher (1922), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736), and Gemma Jones (1942). After him are Joan of Kent (1328), Hugh Lofting (1886), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Maggie Reilly (1956), William Gull (1816), and Robert Watson-Watt (1892).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Kerr ranks 47. Before him are John Stewart Bell (1928), Stephen Hales (1677), Joseph Swan (1828), William Whewell (1794), Duncan Haldane (1951), and William Sturgeon (1783). After him are William Watson (1715), Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Henry Poynting (1852), John Dollond (1706), John Canton (1718), and John Houghton (1931).

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