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Lewis Fry Richardson

1881 - 1953

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Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS (11 October 1881 – 30 September 1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist, and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them. He is also noted for his pioneering work on fractals and a method for solving a system of linear equations known as modified Richardson iteration. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis Fry Richardson is the 199th most popular mathematician (up from 695th in 2019), the 1,022nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,237th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lewis Fry Richardson ranks 199 out of 1,004. Before him are Étienne-Louis Malus, Wacław Sierpiński, Camille Jordan, Jan Łukasiewicz, René Thom, and James Gregory. After him are Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Ernst Schröder, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Conon of Samos, Victor D'Hondt, and André Weil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Lewis Fry Richardson ranks 51. Before him are Henry Maitland Wilson, Otto Bauer, Carlo Carrà, Sveinn Björnsson, Emil Ludwig, and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. After him are P. G. Wodehouse, Artur Phleps, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Ludwig Binswanger, Hakaru Hashimoto, and Kim Kyu-sik. Among people deceased in 1953, Lewis Fry Richardson ranks 26. Before him are Hugo Sperrle, Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Walther Darré, Robert A. Taft, Kathleen Ferrier, and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. After him are Hans Reichenbach, Alice Prin, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Vera Mukhina, Nobuyuki Abe, and Lionel Logue.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lewis Fry Richardson ranks 1,022 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian McDiarmid (1944), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Gregory (1638), Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), John of Salisbury (1110), and Freeman Dyson (1923). After him are Danny Boyle (1956), Len Deighton (1929), Charles Lightoller (1874), Ida Noddack (1896), David Cameron (1966), and Malcolm III of Scotland (1031).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Lewis Fry Richardson ranks 23. Before him are Colin Maclaurin (1698), Oliver Heaviside (1850), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), John Pell (1611), G. I. Taylor (1886), and James Gregory (1638). After him are Arthur Cayley (1821), Henry Briggs (1561), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Peter Tait (1831), Michael Atiyah (1929), and Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195).

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