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C. V. Boys

1855 - 1944

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Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (15 March 1855 – 30 March 1944) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work in the fields of thermodynamics and high-speed photography, and as a popular science communicator through his books, inventions, and his public lectures for children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. V. Boys has received more than 62,938 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). C. V. Boys is the 668th most popular physicist (up from 722nd in 2019), the 3,686th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,729th in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, C. V. Boys ranks 668 out of 851. Before him are Christian Møller, Charles H. Bennett, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, Shoichi Sakata, Ted Fujita, and William Astbury. After him are Balthasar van der Pol, Sulamith Goldhaber, Ash Carter, John C. Slater, Yoshiaki Arata, and Frederick Seitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, C. V. Boys ranks 86. Before him are Leo Deutsch, Marianne Stokes, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Swarnakumari Devi, Cecilia Beaux, and Frank Hadow. After him are Vittoria Aganoor, Olive Schreiner, Alfred Ewing, Marie Stritt, Ludwig Ganghofer, and Robert M. La Follette. Among people deceased in 1944, C. V. Boys ranks 258. Before him are Jaan Kikkas, Shigeo Arai, Dietrich Kraiss, Josef Lhévinne, Leon Kozłowski, and Kustaa Pihlajamäki. After him are Adaviye Efendiyeva, Alejandro Villanueva, Han Yong-un, Benedicto de Moraes Menezes, Tatyana Makarova, and Charles Dana Gibson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, C. V. Boys ranks 3,686 out of 8,785. Before him are Sid Kimpton (1887), William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Ian Hunter (1939), Tobias Menzies (1974), and Gwyneth Jones (1936). After him are Margery Allingham (1904), Pat Symonds (1953), Robert Lindsay (1890), Harold Mahony (1867), Henry Litolff (1818), and Calvin Harris (1984).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, C. V. Boys ranks 71. Before him are John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Frederick Guthrie (1833), Michael Berry (1941), and William Astbury (1898). After him are John Hopkinson (1849), John Polkinghorne (1930), Alfred Ewing (1855), Raymond Gosling (1926), Brandon Carter (1942), and Peter Mark Roget (1779).

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