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Frederick Guthrie

1833 - 1886

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Frederick Guthrie FRS FRSE (15 October 1833 – 21 October 1886) was a British physicist, chemist, and academic author. He was the son of Alexander Guthrie, a London tradesman, and the younger brother of mathematician Francis Guthrie. Along with William Fletcher Barrett he founded the Physical Society of London (now the Institute of Physics) in 1874 and was president of the society from 1884 until 1886. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Guthrie has received more than 62,164 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Guthrie is the 645th most popular physicist, the 3,487th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 68th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frederick Guthrie ranks 645 out of 851. Before him are Harriet Brooks, Gerald Guralnik, Isaak Khalatnikov, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph Kronig, and Ferdinand Monoyer. After him are Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Ali Javan, William Higinbotham, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Julius Wess, and Hertha Sponer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Frederick Guthrie ranks 66. Before him are Géza Fejérváry, Robert G. Ingersoll, Artur Hazelius, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, Cándido Bareiro, and John Houlding. After him are Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Salvador Jovellanos, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, John Anderson, Constantine V of Constantinople, and José María de Pereda. Among people deceased in 1886, Frederick Guthrie ranks 48. Before him are Edmond Laguerre, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Zinovios Valvis, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Albert Küchler, and Gustav Fischer. After him are Tomás Villalba, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Richard Maack, Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Samuel J. Tilden, and Théodore Aubanel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Guthrie ranks 3,487 out of 8,785. Before him are Don Thompson (1933), Natascha McElhone (1969), Claire Foy (1984), John Mayhew (1947), Bernard Sumner (1956), and Steve Hogarth (1956). After him are Jon Hiseman (1944), Hannah More (1745), Jenny Agutter (1952), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858), Brian Redman (1937), and Robert Bolt (1924).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Guthrie ranks 68. Before him are Sergey Kapitsa (1928), John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), and Francis Hauksbee (1660). After him are Michael Berry (1941), William Astbury (1898), C. V. Boys (1855), John Hopkinson (1849), John Polkinghorne (1930), and Alfred Ewing (1855).

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