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John Lennard-Jones

1894 - 1954

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Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He was an important pioneer in the development of modern computational chemistry and theoretical chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Lennard-Jones is the 570th most popular physicist (up from 621st in 2019), the 3,070th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,236th in 2019) and the 66th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Lennard-Jones ranks 570 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Perot, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, José Celestino Mutis, Lev Artsimovich, Ralph H. Fowler, and Willem Hendrik Keesom. After him are Jakob II Bernoulli, Marietta Blau, Claude Pouillet, Marcel Brillouin, Eric Allin Cornell, and Étienne-Gaspard Robert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, John Lennard-Jones ranks 159. Before him are Elvira Popescu, Mirza Davud Huseynov, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Kurt Blome, Riad Al Solh, and Berdi Kerbabayev. After him are Viorica Ursuleac, Saken Seifullin, Edwin Linkomies, Heinz Hopf, Marietta Blau, and Magda Julin. Among people deceased in 1954, John Lennard-Jones ranks 99. Before him are Henri Laurent, Werner Bischof, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Mikhail Prishvin, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and Hella Wuolijoki. After him are Pyotr Leshchenko, Vera Gaze, Jacques Mieses, Alberto Braglia, Zofia Nałkowska, and B. C. Forbes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lennard-Jones ranks 3,071 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Oakeshott (1901), Charles Gray (1928), Douglas Hartree (1897), Freddie Jones (1927), Sigeberht of Wessex (750), and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838). After him are Richard Burbage (1567), Jude Bellingham (2003), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Barbara Bodichon (1827), and Ray Davies (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Lennard-Jones ranks 66. Before him are Joseph Larmor (1857), Gilbert Walker (1868), John Robison (1739), William Astbury (1898), Ernest Marsden (1889), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After him are Sergey Kapitsa (1928), Michael Berry (1941), John D. Barrow (1952), William Edward Ayrton (1847), James David Forbes (1809), and John Polkinghorne (1930).

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