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Peter Mark Roget

1779 - 1869

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Peter Mark Roget (UK: US: ; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus). In 1824, he read a paper to the Royal Society about a peculiar optical illusion which is often (falsely) regarded as the origin of the ancient persistence of vision theory that was later commonly, yet incorrectly, used to explain apparent motion in film and animation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Mark Roget is the 739th most popular physicist (down from 720th in 2019), the 4,628th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,241st in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Mark Roget ranks 739 out of 851. Before him are Gregor Wentzel, Roald Sagdeev, Mordehai Milgrom, Valentine Telegdi, Vilho Väisälä, and Seymour Benzer. After him are Ted Fujita, Shirley Ann Jackson, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Robert Bacher, Hans Reissner, and Hubert Curien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Peter Mark Roget ranks 35. Before him are Filippo Paulucci, Washington Allston, Joel Roberts Poinsett, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, and Tabitha Babbitt. After him are Mountstuart Elphinstone, Zebulon Pike, Benjamin Silliman, Stephen Decatur, Samuel D. Ingham, and Joseph Story. Among people deceased in 1869, Peter Mark Roget ranks 61. Before him are Diomidis Kyriakos, Bertalan Szemere, Robert J. Walker, José Hilario López, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, and Charles Sturt. After him are John Cassin, Thomas Hodgskin, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Mary Ward, John Bell, and William P. Fessenden.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 4,629 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul Anderson (1978), William Michael Rossetti (1829), Maurice Greene (1696), Jason Orange (1970), John Speed (1551), and George Cornet (1877). After him are Brian Aherne (1902), Michael Caton-Jones (1957), James Frain (1968), Yvonne Blake (1940), Charles Allston Collins (1828), and George Back (1796).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 80. Before him are C. V. Boys (1855), Michael Green (1946), Brandon Carter (1942), Edward Andrade (1887), Francis Hauksbee (1660), and Raymond Gosling (1926). After him are John Hopkinson (1849), Balfour Stewart (1828), John Pendry (1943), Brian Cox (1968), Charles Sheffield (1935), and Ronald Drever (1931).

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