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Daniel Rutherford

1749 - 1819

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Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 November 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Rutherford has received more than 231,495 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Daniel Rutherford is the 265th most popular physicist (down from 256th in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 831st in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Physicist.

Daniel Rutherford is most famous for his discovery of nitrogen and oxygen.

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  • 62.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Daniel Rutherford ranks 265 out of 851. Before him are Syukuro Manabe, Max Delbrück, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, John Cockcroft, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. After him are John Vincent Atanasoff, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Andrew Huxley, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Hugh David Politzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Daniel Rutherford ranks 11. Before him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Yolande de Polastron, Domenico Cimarosa, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe. After him are Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Vittorio Alfieri, Alexander Radishchev, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois. Among people deceased in 1819, Daniel Rutherford ranks 8. Before him are Charles IV of Spain, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Maria Luisa of Parma, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, and Kamehameha I. After him are Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, August von Kotzebue, Erik Acharius, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Daniel Rutherford ranks 728 out of 8,785. Before him are William Tyndale (1494), John Cockcroft (1897), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Mary Quant (1930), and David Hockney (1937). After him are Deborah Kerr (1921), Patrick White (1912), John of Salisbury (1110), Jude Law (1972), Alexander R. Todd (1907), and James Mill (1773).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Daniel Rutherford ranks 31. Before him are John Kendrew (1917), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Charles Wheatstone (1802), David Brewster (1781), and John Cockcroft (1897). After him are Andrew Huxley (1917), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Freeman Dyson (1923), and James Jeans (1877).

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