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PHYSICIST

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 60,638 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). C. V. Boys is the 722nd most popular physicist (down from 661st in 2019), the 4,741st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,136th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular British Physicist.

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  • 61k

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  • 41.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, C. V. Boys ranks 722 out of 717. Before him are Howard P. Robertson, Ronald Drever, John Pendry, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Erwin Hahn, and Raymond Gosling. After him are Rudolf Haag, Léon Rosenfeld, Sidney Coleman, Narinder Singh Kapany, Ludvig Lorenz, and Ayşe Erzan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, C. V. Boys ranks 89. Before him are Ludwig Ganghofer, Pierre Puiseux, Clinton Hart Merriam, Olive Schreiner, Robert M. La Follette, and Cecilia Beaux. After him is John McKenna. Among people deceased in 1944, C. V. Boys ranks 265. Before him are Hermann Hansen, Mary Adela Blagg, Toni Merkens, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Merna Kennedy, and Mike Bookie. After him are George B. Seitz, Charles Marion, Siegfried Purner, Chandramukhi Basu, Ernest Townsend, and Robert Frazer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, C. V. Boys ranks 4,741 out of 7,765. Before him are Alec Jeffreys (1950), Harry Lloyd (1983), Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947), William Kirby (1759), Jet Harris (1939), and Mike Hodges (1932). After him are Lynn Fontanne (1887), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958), Brian Naylor (1923), Alex Pettyfer (1990), and Ray Cooper (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, C. V. Boys ranks 83. Before him are Brandon Carter (1942), Julian Barbour (1937), Bernard Lovell (1913), Ronald Drever (1931), John Pendry (1943), and Raymond Gosling (1926). After him are Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Houghton (1931), Brian Cox (1968), Edward Andrade (1887), and Jess Wade (1988).

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