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Charles Galton Darwin

1887 - 1962

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Sir Charles Galton Darwin (19 December 1887 – 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Galton Darwin has received more than 198,023 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Charles Galton Darwin is the 437th most popular physicist (up from 451st in 2019), the 2,521st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,100th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 437 out of 851. Before him are Mildred Dresselhaus, Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, Anatoli Bugorski, and Vladimir Fock. After him are George Volkoff, Robert W. Wood, Heinrich Rubens, Walther Meissner, Katharine Burr Blodgett, and Richard C. Tolman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 105. Before him are Johann Radon, Miklós Kállay, Kurt Atterberg, James Finlayson, Antanas Merkys, and Frigyes Karinthy. After him are Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Simon Kimbangu, Arthur Percival, Jim Thorpe, and Kazimierz Fajans. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 80. Before him are Milan Vidmar, Erik Scavenius, Mouloud Feraoun, Juan Belmonte, Richard Aldington, and Candido Portinari. After him are Erich von Tschermak, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Diego Martínez Barrio, Ahmad bin Yahya, Max Fabiani, and György Orth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 2,521 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1851), Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1817), Walter Frentz (1907), Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821). After him are Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (1610), Heinrich Marx (1777), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737), Otto Baum (1911), and Friedrich Bayer (1825).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 62. Before him are Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), Franz Aepinus (1724), Friedrich Paschen (1865), Rudolf Peierls (1907), Walther Gerlach (1889), and Johanna Budwig (1908). After him are Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walther Meissner (1882), Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865), Erich Hückel (1896), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), and Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687).

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