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William Edward Ayrton

1847 - 1908

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William Edward Ayrton, FRS (14 September 1847 – 8 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Edward Ayrton is the 599th most popular physicist (down from 512th in 2019), the 3,337th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,341st in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Edward Ayrton ranks 599 out of 851. Before him are John D. Barrow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Vladimir Veksler, Henry Augustus Rowland, and Tullio Regge. After him are Gustav Mie, Shoichi Sakata, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Anatoly Alexandrov, Pierre Weiss, and Robert Mills.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, William Edward Ayrton ranks 77. Before him are Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Anton Reichenow, Cesare Arzelà, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Koos de la Rey, and Hermann Osthoff. After him are Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, Dimitar Grekov, Lipót Schulhof, Louis Henri Boussenard, Heinrich Gelzer, and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson. Among people deceased in 1908, William Edward Ayrton ranks 78. Before him are Friedrich Paulsen, Ernest Hébert, René Panhard, Milovan Glišić, Ernest Fenollosa, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt. After him are Baron Ignaz von Plener, Manuel Curros Enríquez, Paul Taffanel, Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, and Simo Matavulj.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Edward Ayrton ranks 3,338 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Quinn (1994), Simon Wright (1963), William Davenant (1606), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), Elizabeth Fry (1780), and Sam Allardyce (1954). After him are Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Thomas Bell (1792), James Norton (1985), Noddy Holder (1946), Geoffrey Howe (1926), and Mark Thatcher (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Edward Ayrton ranks 70. Before him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), Michael Berry (1941), and John D. Barrow (1952). After him are James David Forbes (1809), John Polkinghorne (1930), Bernard Lovell (1913), C. V. Boys (1855), Michael Green (1946), and Brandon Carter (1942).

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