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Francis Hauksbee

1660 - 1713

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Francis Hauksbee the Elder (1660–1713), also known as Francis Hawksbee, was an 18th-century English scientist best known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Hauksbee has received more than 126,738 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Hauksbee is the 633rd most popular physicist (down from 569th in 2019), the 3,342nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,950th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Francis Hauksbee ranks 633 out of 851. Before him are Leo Kadanoff, Walter Kaufmann, Giovanni Giorgi, Charles Kittel, Barys Kit, and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld. After him are Gerard K. O'Neill, Alfred Landé, Tullio Regge, Victor J. Stenger, Harriet Brooks, and Gerald Guralnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Francis Hauksbee ranks 22. Before him are Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Jakob Prandtauer, Peter Schenk the Elder, and Grace Sherwood. After him are Gavriil Golovkin, Jeanne Dumée, and Edward Lhuyd. Among people deceased in 1713, Francis Hauksbee ranks 14. Before him are Jahandar Shah, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Michael II Apafi, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Pavao Ritter Vitezović.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Hauksbee ranks 3,342 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Bonetti (1941), William Lawes (1602), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), Richard de Bury (1287), Michael Wilding (1912), and Capability Brown (1716). After him are Aneka (1947), Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355), Charles Avison (1709), William Bradford (1590), John Abbot (1751), and Rupert Graves (1963).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Francis Hauksbee ranks 67. Before him are James David Forbes (1809), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), and Michael Green (1946). After him are Frederick Guthrie (1833), Michael Berry (1941), William Astbury (1898), C. V. Boys (1855), John Hopkinson (1849), and John Polkinghorne (1930).

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