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John Robison

1739 - 1805

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John Robison FRSE (4 February 1739 – 30 January 1805) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. He was a professor of natural philosophy (the precursor of natural science) at the University of Edinburgh. A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society when it received its royal warrant, he was appointed as the first general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783–98). Robison invented the siren and also worked with James Watt on an early steam car. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Robison is the 547th most popular physicist (up from 591st in 2019), the 2,819th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,993rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Robison ranks 547 out of 851. Before him are Joseph Larmor, Vladimir Steklov, Gerard K. O'Neill, Pief Panofsky, Grote Reber, and Gilbert Walker. After him are Ludvig Faddeev, Gunnar Nordström, Woldemar Voigt, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Gene Amdahl, and Robert H. Dicke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, John Robison ranks 18. Before him are François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Jean-François de La Harpe, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and Frei Galvão. After him are Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Johann Beckmann, Juan de Villanueva, John Rutledge, and Sophronius of Vratsa. Among people deceased in 1805, John Robison ranks 22. Before him are William Paley, Pehr Osbeck, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. After him are Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Conrad Moench, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Thomas Wedgwood, and Mihály Csokonai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Robison ranks 2,820 out of 8,785. Before him are Bobby Sands (1954), William Turner (1510), George Rooke (1650), Toby Jones (1966), Siân Phillips (1933), and Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865). After him are Steven Wilson (1967), James Glaisher (1809), George Cruikshank (1792), Caroline Goodall (1959), William Speirs Bruce (1867), and Cyril Jackson (1903).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Robison ranks 62. Before him are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), Paul Davies (1946), William Robert Grove (1811), Joseph Larmor (1857), and Gilbert Walker (1868). After him are William Astbury (1898), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), and Michael Berry (1941).

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