1749 - 1819
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 218,620 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Daniel Rutherford is the 256th most popular physicist (down from 237th in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 771st 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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Among physicists, Daniel Rutherford ranks 256 out of 717. Before him are Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, Serge Haroche, Joseph Plateau, Gérard Mourou, and Klaus Fuchs. After him are Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, John Cockcroft, Moshé Feldenkrais, Rainer Weiss, and Abdul Qadeer Khan.
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 250
1921 - 2015
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 251
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 252
1801 - 1883
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 253
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 254
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 255
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 256
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 257
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 258
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 259
1904 - 1984
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 260
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 261
1936 - 2021
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 262
Among people born in 1749, Daniel Rutherford ranks 11. Before him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Domenico Cimarosa, Yolande de Polastron, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, and Lorenzo Da Ponte. After him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Vittorio Alfieri, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Alexander Radishchev, and Johann Nikolaus Forkel. Among people deceased in 1819, Daniel Rutherford ranks 9. Before him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Maria Luisa of Parma, Kamehameha I, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, and Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. After him are August von Kotzebue, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sophie Blanchard, and Erik Acharius.
1749 - 1791
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 5
1749 - 1841
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 6
1749 - 1801
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 7
1749 - 1793
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 8
1749 - 1792
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 9
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 10
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 11
1749 - 1822
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 12
1749 - 1803
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 13
1749 - 1803
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 14
1749 - 1817
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 15
1749 - 1802
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 16
1749 - 1818
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 17
1742 - 1819
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 3
1751 - 1819
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 4
1758 - 1819
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 5
1743 - 1819
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 6
1788 - 1819
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 7
1751 - 1819
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 8
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 9
1761 - 1819
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 10
1742 - 1819
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 11
1758 - 1819
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 12
1778 - 1819
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 13
1778 - 1819
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 14
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, Daniel Rutherford ranks 831 out of 7,765. Before him are Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Mary Mallon (1869), W. O. Bentley (1888), Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (1982), Edmund Spenser (1552), and Charles Vane (1680). After him are Pete Townshend (1945), Petula Clark (1932), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), and John Hanning Speke (1827).
1031 - 1093
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 825
1869 - 1938
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 826
1888 - 1971
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 827
1982 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 828
1552 - 1599
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 829
1680 - 1721
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 830
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 831
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 832
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 833
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 834
1836 - 1914
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 835
1141 - 1165
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 836
1827 - 1864
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 837
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Daniel Rutherford ranks 31. Before him are David Brewster (1781), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Kendrew (1917), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), and David J. Thouless (1934). After him are Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), John Cockcroft (1897), Joseph Swan (1828), Patrick Blackett (1897), and Brian Josephson (1940).
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 25
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 26
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 27
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 29
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 30
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 31
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 32
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 33
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 34
1828 - 1914
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 35
1897 - 1974
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 36
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 37