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Thomas Wright

1711 - 1786

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Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulæ were distant galaxies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Wright is the 581st most popular mathematician (down from 527th in 2019), the 2,787th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,437th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Wright ranks 581 out of 1,004. Before him are Gino Fano, Georg Mohr, Max Noether, Francesco Barozzi, Julius Weisbach, and Johannes de Muris. After him are Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Stanisław Leśniewski, Ulisse Dini, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Plato Tiburtinus, and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Thomas Wright ranks 19. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, William Boyce, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, and Princess Amelia of Great Britain. After him are Ignaz Holzbauer, Carl Gustaf Pilo, Stepan Krasheninnikov, and Shah Jahan III. Among people deceased in 1786, Thomas Wright ranks 20. Before him are John Stanley, Hans Joachim von Zieten, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Pierre Poivre, John Byron, and Princess Amelia of Great Britain. After him are Nathanael Greene, Bernardo de Gálvez, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Gustaf Lundberg, and William Duesbury.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wright ranks 2,788 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Pottinger (1789), Ronnie Clayton (1934), Charles James Fox (1749), Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), John Wood (1930), and Kevin Ayers (1944). After him are Ed Davey (1965), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), Andrew Ridgeley (1963), William Robert Grove (1811), Robert Catesby (1573), and Jack Greenwell (1884).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wright ranks 62. Before him are Ernest William Brown (1866), David Mumford (1937), Harold Jeffreys (1891), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), and Joseph Raphson (1648). After him are Henry Dudeney (1857), Sydney Chapman (1888), James Ivory (1765), Douglas Hartree (1897), John Playfair (1748), and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907).

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