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Douglas Hartree

1897 - 1958

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Douglas Rayner Hartree (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Hartree has received more than 123,585 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Douglas Hartree is the 738th most popular mathematician (down from 713th in 2019), the 3,499th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,622nd in 2019) and the 77th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Douglas Hartree ranks 738 out of 1,004. Before him are Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Antanas Mockus, Leonard Nelson, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Saharon Shelah, and Szolem Mandelbrojt. After him are Daniel Quillen, Sergey Mergelyan, François d'Aguilon, Suzan Kahramaner, Erich Kähler, and Wu Wenjun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Douglas Hartree ranks 230. Before him are Alma Rubens, George Murdock, Nils Asther, Fausto Acke, Edgard Colle, and Henri Frankfort. After him are Diana Karenne, Martti Marttelin, Luis Batlle Berres, Miguel Fleta, Betty Compson, and Francisco Mignone. Among people deceased in 1958, Douglas Hartree ranks 138. Before him are Vladimir Lossky, Stevan Hristić, Josep Irla, Giovanni Micheletto, Myriam Harry, and Alexandre Tuffère. After him are Peter Whitehead, Oscar Torp, Eddie Colman, Alexandre Schaumasse, Arvid Holmberg, and Robert Lindsay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hartree ranks 3,499 out of 8,785. Before him are Adrienne Corri (1931), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), William Martin Leake (1777), Suze Randall (1946), Pat Roach (1937), and John Henry Davies (1864). After him are Nicholas Evans (1950), Sandy Denny (1947), Graham Potter (1975), John Lyly (1554), Blanche Bingley (1863), and George Cohen (1939).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Douglas Hartree ranks 77. Before him are Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Lady Byron (1792), James Ivory (1765), David Cox (1924), William Hopkins (1793), and Charles Hutton (1737). After him are Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Horace Lamb (1849), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), and Frank Morley (1860).

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