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Louis Harold Gray

1905 - 1965

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Louis Harold Gray FRS (10 November 1905 – 9 July 1965) was an English physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems. He was one of the earliest contributors of the field of radiobiology. Amongst many other achievements, he defined a unit of radiation dosage (absorbed dose) which was later named after him as an SI unit, the gray. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Harold Gray is the 424th most popular physicist (up from 450th in 2019), the 1,907th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,849th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis Harold Gray ranks 424 out of 851. Before him are Robert W. Wood, Bruno Rossi, Georgy Flyorov, Johann Andreas Segner, John Mauchly, and Jules Jamin. After him are John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, and Raoul Pictet.

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Among people born in 1905, Louis Harold Gray ranks 112. Before him are Jean Daniélou, Gerhard Klopfer, Mikio Naruse, John Lyng, Bruno Rossi, and Anna May Wong. After him are Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Maria von Trapp, Pierre Klossowski, Wanda Wasilewska, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, and The Boswell Sisters. Among people deceased in 1965, Louis Harold Gray ranks 70. Before him are Shirley Jackson, Ladislas Starevich, Kōdō Sawaki, La Belle Otero, Harry Babcock, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay. After him are Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Leopold Figl, Odile Defraye, Erik Heinrichs, Alfredo Guzzoni, and William Heard Kilpatrick.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Louis Harold Gray ranks 1,907 out of 8,785. Before him are Gordon Ramsay (1966), John Bull (1562), Ian Kershaw (1943), Dorothy Round (1909), Jack Hawkins (1910), and Thomas Simpson (1710). After him are David Bailey (1938), Richard Adams (1920), Martin Amis (1949), Charles Macintosh (1766), Peter Vaughan (1923), and Thomas Sydenham (1624).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Louis Harold Gray ranks 49. Before him are Joseph Swan (1828), William Whewell (1794), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Sturgeon (1783), John Kerr (1824), and William Watson (1715). After him are John Henry Poynting (1852), John Dollond (1706), John Canton (1718), John Houghton (1931), Alfred Ewing (1855), and Frederick Guthrie (1833).

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