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John Scott Russell

1808 - 1882

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John Scott Russell (9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow – 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction. Russell was a promoter of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Scott Russell is the 147th most popular engineer (up from 364th in 2019), the 2,229th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,883rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Scott Russell ranks 147 out of 389. Before him are Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Pierre-Émile Martin, J. Walter Christie, Georges Leclanché, Vitaly Abalakov, and Franz Reuleaux. After him are Hellmuth Walter, Marc Seguin, Sherif Ismail, Mikhail Yangel, Walter Hohmann, and Gabriel Voisin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, John Scott Russell ranks 36. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Eugénie de Beauharnais, Urbano Rattazzi, Venancio Flores, Johann Benedict Listing, and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli. After him are Samson Raphael Hirsch, Emma Darwin, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Caterina Scarpellini, and Karl Friedrich Lessing. Among people deceased in 1882, John Scott Russell ranks 44. Before him are Estanislao Figueras, Alfred Escher, Johann Benedict Listing, Đuro Daničić, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, and Georges Leclanché. After him are Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Ferdinand Reich, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Thomas Romney Robinson, Friedrich von Lütke, and Charles J. Guiteau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Scott Russell ranks 2,229 out of 8,785. Before him are Nicolas Roeg (1928), Cassivellaunus (-100), David Roberts (1796), Alan Smith (1962), John Wyndham (1903), and Julian Sands (1958). After him are Andy Murray (1987), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), David Ogilvy (1911), Stephen Langton (1150), Thomas Byles (1870), and Trevor Taylor (1936).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, John Scott Russell ranks 18. Before him are Patrick Head (1946), Robert Stephenson (1803), George Cayley (1773), Alexander Cunningham (1814), W. Ross Ashby (1903), and John Loudon McAdam (1756). After him are John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Hughes (1814), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), André Waterkeyn (1917), and Harvey Postlethwaite (1944).

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