PHYSICIST

Charles Wheatstone

1802 - 1875

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Sir Charles Wheatstone (; 6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875) was an English physicist and inventor best known for his contributions to the development of the Wheatstone bridge, originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistance, and as a major figure in the development of telegraphy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Wheatstone has received more than 620,088 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Charles Wheatstone is the 254th most popular physicist (down from 222nd in 2019), the 696th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 706th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Physicist.

Charles Wheatstone is most famous for inventing the Wheatstone bridge, which is a device used to measure electrical resistance.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Wheatstone ranks 254 out of 851. Before him are Gérard Mourou, Georg Bednorz, Georg von Békésy, Ivar Giaever, Claude-Louis Navier, and Brian Josephson. After him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, Otto Robert Frisch, Rainer Weiss, and Syukuro Manabe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Charles Wheatstone ranks 11. Before him are Lajos Kossuth, Elias Lönnrot, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. After him are Germain Henri Hess, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Pavel Nakhimov, Husein Gradaščević, Antoine Jérôme Balard, and Harriet Martineau. Among people deceased in 1875, Charles Wheatstone ranks 15. Before him are Isaac Singer, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Moses Hess, Guillaume Henri Dufour, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. After him are Pierre Larousse, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Amalia of Oldenburg, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Jacques Paul Migne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Wheatstone ranks 696 out of 8,785. Before him are William Oughtred (1574), Stephen Gray (1666), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Brian Josephson (1940), Harry Kroto (1939), and Benjamin Hornigold (1680). After him are James May (1963), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Peter Greenaway (1942), Francis Hutcheson (1694), David Brewster (1781), and William Webb Ellis (1806).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Wheatstone ranks 28. Before him are Henry Moseley (1887), David J. Thouless (1934), William Shockley (1910), John Kendrew (1917), Patrick Blackett (1897), and Brian Josephson (1940). After him are David Brewster (1781), John Cockcroft (1897), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Andrew Huxley (1917), Osborne Reynolds (1842), and Anthony James Leggett (1938).

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