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Balfour Stewart

1828 - 1887

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Balfour Stewart (1 November 1828 – 19 December 1887) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. In 1859 he was appointed director of Kew Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balfour Stewart has received more than 46,271 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Balfour Stewart is the 757th most popular physicist, the 4,767th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 83rd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Balfour Stewart ranks 757 out of 851. Before him are Grigory Landsberg, Lene Hau, Conyers Herring, Bengt Edlén, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, and Yoseph Imry. After him are Rolf Landauer, Valentine Telegdi, Robert Marshak, Jürgen Kurths, Peter Zoller, and Anatoly Logunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Balfour Stewart ranks 64. Before him are George Crook, Kanō Hōgai, Andrew Murray, Ignacio de Veintemilla, Morten Müller, and Charles Allston Collins. After him are Thomas F. Bayard, Luiza Pesjak, Margaret Oliphant, Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera, and Charles Foster. Among people deceased in 1887, Balfour Stewart ranks 60. Before him are Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, August Spies, Semyon Nadson, Henry Ward Beecher, Joachim IV of Constantinople, and Albert Parsons. After him are Elihu B. Washburne, George Alexander Macfarren, Alfred Domett, Dinah Craik, Robert M. T. Hunter, and Daniel Manning.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Balfour Stewart ranks 4,767 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674), Mary Beard (1955), Juliet Stevenson (1956), Heather Angel (1909), C. H. Dodd (1884), and Robert Smirke (1780). After him are Dorothy Manley (1927), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Glyn Johns (1942), Giles Gilbert Scott (1880), Lionel Tertis (1876), and Robert H. McNaught (1956).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Balfour Stewart ranks 83. Before him are Peter Mark Roget (1779), Julian Barbour (1937), John Aitken (1839), Alan Cottrell (1919), Bernard Lovell (1913), and Gilbert Walker (1868). After him are Charles Sheffield (1935), Brian Cox (1968), Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Houghton (1931), Ronald Drever (1931), and John Pendry (1943).

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