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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 119,981 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Francis Hauksbee is the 569th most popular physicist (down from 534th in 2019), the 2,958th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,522nd in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Francis Hauksbee ranks 569 out of 717Before him are Georg Adolf Erman, James Hansen, Gustav Mie, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Ludvig Faddeev, and Lev Artsimovich. After him are Fabiola Gianotti, Yakov Frenkel, Alfred Perot, Emil Warburg, José Celestino Mutis, and Victor J. Stenger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Francis Hauksbee ranks 20Before him are Friedrich Hoffmann, Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, Arnold Houbraken, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, and Jakob Prandtauer. After him are Jeanne Dumée and Edward Lhuyd. Among people deceased in 1713, Francis Hauksbee ranks 14Before him are Jahandar Shah, Michael II Apafi, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, 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 2,958 out of 7,765Before him are Arnold Wesker (1932), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Geoff Downes (1952), Robert Holdstock (1948), Christina Pickles (1935), and Nathalie Emmanuel (1989). After him are Robert Knox (1791), Lee Kerslake (1947), Dawn Addams (1930), Jonathan Penrose (1933), Brian O'Nolan (1911), and Thomas Digges (1546).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Francis Hauksbee ranks 65Before him are Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), Paul Davies (1946), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), James David Forbes (1809), and William Edward Ayrton (1847). After him are C. P. Snow (1905), John D. Barrow (1952), John Robison (1739), John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889).