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William Whewell

1794 - 1866

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William Whewell ( HEW-əl; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics. The breadth of Whewell's endeavours is his most remarkable feature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Whewell is the 360th most popular physicist (down from 320th in 2019), the 1,401st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,012th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Whewell ranks 360 out of 851. Before him are Jean-Charles de Borda, Pascual Jordan, Frank Wilczek, Franz Aepinus, Nathan Rosen, and E. C. George Sudarshan. After him are Heinrich Geißler, Henri Pitot, Duncan Haldane, Gaston Planté, Théophile de Donder, and Louis Slotin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, William Whewell ranks 12. Before him are Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Theobald Boehm, Wilhelm Müller, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Józef Bem, and Ignaz Moscheles. After him are Léon Cogniet, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Eduard Rüppell, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Ami Boué, and Jacques Collin de Plancy. Among people deceased in 1866, William Whewell ranks 10. Before him are Karl Ludwig Hencke, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Hermann Goldschmidt, Tokugawa Iemochi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, and Madame Clicquot Ponsardin. After him are Chief Seattle, Friedrich Rückert, Rikard Nordraak, Thomas Hodgkin, Adolph Diesterweg, and Paul Gavarni.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Whewell ranks 1,401 out of 8,785. Before him are William Aiton (1731), Kate Atkinson (1951), Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Seamus Heaney (1939), Bob Hope (1903), and Rafael Merry del Val (1865). After him are Saint David (512), Samuel Pepys (1633), MF Doom (1971), Peter Burke (1937), Bill Shankly (1913), and Liam Payne (1993).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Whewell ranks 44. Before him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), Freeman Dyson (1923), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Stewart Bell (1928), Stephen Hales (1677), and Joseph Swan (1828). After him are Duncan Haldane (1951), William Sturgeon (1783), John Kerr (1824), William Watson (1715), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and John Henry Poynting (1852).

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