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Robert Hooke

1635 - 1703

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Robert Hooke (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke (as a surveyor and architect) attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Hooke is the 27th most popular physicist (down from 14th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 36th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Physicist.

Robert Hooke was an English scientist who is most famous for his discovery of the law of elasticity.

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Among physicists, Robert Hooke ranks 27 out of 851. Before him are Edward Victor Appleton, Werner Heisenberg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Enrico Fermi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Georg Ohm. After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Ibn al-Haytham, Heinrich Hertz, and Lawrence Bragg.

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Among people born in 1635, Robert Hooke ranks 1. After him are Henry Morgan, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Johann Joachim Becher, Philipp Spener, Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, François l'Olonnais, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Zanabazar, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, and Philippe Quinault. Among people deceased in 1703, Robert Hooke ranks 2. Before him is Charles Perrault. After him are Mustafa II, Man in the Iron Mask, John Wallis, Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, Ilona Zrínyi, Samuel Pepys, Erik Dahlbergh, Maria de Dominici, and Nicolas de Grigny.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Hooke ranks 71 out of 8,785. Before him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), James V of Scotland (1512), Aleister Crowley (1875), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), and Edward the Black Prince (1330). After him are Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Daniel Defoe (1660), Cecil Rhodes (1853), and Bertrand Russell (1872).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Robert Hooke ranks 9. Before him are Michael Faraday (1791), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842). After him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), and David J. Thouless (1934).

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