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Charles Macintosh

1766 - 1843

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Charles Macintosh FRS (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843) was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of the modern waterproof raincoat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Macintosh has received more than 1,153,983 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles Macintosh is the 341st most popular chemist (down from 309th in 2019), the 1,626th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,483rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.75

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  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles Macintosh ranks 341 out of 602. Before her are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev. After her are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Roger Y. Tsien, and Carl Djerassi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Charles Macintosh ranks 17. Before her are Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Maine de Biran, Dominique Jean Larrey, William Hyde Wollaston, and Slimane of Morocco. After her are Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, François-Xavier Fabre, Samuel Wilson, Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, and Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases. Among people deceased in 1843, Charles Macintosh ranks 15. Before her are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, and Robert Southey. After her are Alexis Bouvard, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Casimir Delavigne, and John Trumbull.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Macintosh ranks 1,626 out of 8,785. Before her are Michael Anderson (1920), Jeffrey Archer (1940), John Dollond (1706), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Matthew Festing (1949), and Philippa Foot (1920). After her are Chris Martin (1977), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Malo (487), Pasquale Anfossi (1727), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), and P. F. Strawson (1919).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Charles Macintosh ranks 46. Before her are William Prout (1785), Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Richard J. Roberts (1943), and Fraser Stoddart (1942). After her are Charles Hatchett (1765), Alexander William Williamson (1824), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Luke Howard (1772), and John William Draper (1811).

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