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Ernest Marsden

1889 - 1970

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Sir Ernest Marsden (19 February 1889 – 15 December 1970) was an English-New Zealand physicist. He is recognised internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Marsden has received more than 126,818 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ernest Marsden is the 483rd most popular physicist (down from 426th in 2019), the 2,323rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,902nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 24

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  • 6.39

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  • 2.48

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernest Marsden ranks 483 out of 717. Before him are Anatoly Alexandrov, Konstantin Novoselov, Maurice Karnaugh, William Stanley Jr., Pierre Victor Auger, and Otto Lehmann. After him are Jayant Narlikar, Edoardo Amaldi, Boris Podolsky, Richard C. Tolman, Dennis W. Sciama, and Pierre Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Ernest Marsden ranks 141. Before him are Claude Rains, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Bernhard Karlgren, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Ivan Mosjoukine, and Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. After him are Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Antonio Caggiano, James Whale, Louis Van Hege, Grigory Levenfish, and Otto Deßloch. Among people deceased in 1970, Ernest Marsden ranks 130. Before him are Aimo Lahti, Gyula Cseszneky, Félix Gaillard, Heino Eller, Pierre Veyron, and Alexander Gode. After him are Soledad Miranda, Fernand Crommelynck, Cathy O'Donnell, Albert Ayler, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, and Max Abegglen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ernest Marsden ranks 2,323 out of 7,765. Before him are David Mumford (1937), Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811), Steve Jones (1955), Tony Judt (1948), and Paul Young (1956). After him are Delroy Lindo (1952), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), Steven Knight (1959), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Edward Coke (1552), and John Latham (1740).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Ernest Marsden ranks 57. Before him are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), William Robert Grove (1811), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), John Canton (1718), and John Leslie (1766). After him are Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), Paul Davies (1946), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), and James David Forbes (1809).

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