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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 183,879 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Charles Galton Darwin is the 451st most popular physicist (down from 444th in 2019), the 2,105th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,009th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 451 out of 717. Before him are Grote Reber, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Jacques Babinet, William Robert Grove, Hiroshi Amano, and Walther Ritz. After him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Giovanni Poleni, Walter Heitler, Alan Sokal, Stefan Hell, and Alan Guth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 121. Before him are Kazimierz Fajans, Alexander Vandegrift, Andrei Shkuro, Arthur Cravan, Abolqasem Lahouti, and Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena. After him are Jean Ray, Marc Mitscher, Vladimir Smirnov, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Paula von Preradović, and Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1962, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 90. Before him are Diego Martínez Barrio, Francisco Bru, Indalecio Prieto, Pierre Benoit, Dhondo Keshav Karve, and Franz Kline. After him are György Orth, Edmond Privat, Donald Lippincott, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, José Giral, and Pedro Pablo Ramírez.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 2,105 out of 7,765. Before him are Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Thomas Beecham (1879), Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886), Albert Austin (1881), Paul Freeman (1943), and David Gemmell (1948). After him are June Whitfield (1925), James Purefoy (1964), Richard Wilson (1714), William Aiton (1731), Guy Edwards (1942), and Mark Williams (1959).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Galton Darwin ranks 53. Before him are William Watson (1715), John Kerr (1824), Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Dollond (1706), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), and William Robert Grove (1811). After him are Joseph Larmor (1857), John Canton (1718), John Leslie (1766), Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), and Michael Green (1946).

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