PHYSICIST

Edward Andrade

1887 - 1971

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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." In the scientific world Andrade is best known for work (with Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation, proving it was far higher in energies than X-rays known at the time. Also, a rheological model suggested by him and bearing his name is still widely employed in continuum mechanics and its geophysical applications. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Andrade has received more than 70,427 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Andrade is the 808th most popular physicist (down from 762nd in 2019), the 5,778th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,698th in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edward Andrade ranks 808 out of 851. Before him are Mazlan Othman, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Stephen L. Adler, Karl Taylor Compton, Ernest Moniz, and William Penney, Baron Penney. After him are Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Herbert Goldstein, Carlos Frenk, J. Richard Gott, Richard A. Muller, and Marcia Barbosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Edward Andrade ranks 289. Before him are Walter Connolly, Billy Bevan, Karl Taylor Compton, Arvi Pohjanpää, Joseph Lamb, and Harry Hines Woodring. After him are William Frawley, Ralph Ince, Ernest Gruening, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, and Harry F. Byrd. Among people deceased in 1971, Edward Andrade ranks 248. Before him are Seán Lemass, Thomas Gomez, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Walter Byron, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, and Ogden Nash. After him are Richard Russell Jr., Libby Holman, Edmund Lowe, Jennison Heaton, Lucien Hubbard, and Raymond Hatton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Andrade ranks 5,778 out of 8,785. Before him are Juno Temple (1989), Bartholomew Gosnold (1572), Allenby Chilton (1918), Jasper Fforde (1961), George MacDonald Fraser (1925), and Ninian Stephen (1923). After him are Alan Cox (1968), John Lydgate (1370), Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868), Dave Greenfield (1949), Hablot Knight Browne (1815), and Emily Beecham (1984).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Edward Andrade ranks 90. Before him are Charles Sheffield (1935), Brian Cox (1968), Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Houghton (1931), Ronald Drever (1931), and John Pendry (1943). After him are Jess Wade (1988).

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