1813 - 1857
Frederick Scott Archer (1813 – 1 May 1857) was an English photographer and sculptor who is best known for having invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Scott Archer has received more than 120,139 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frederick Scott Archer is the 222nd most popular inventor (down from 212th in 2019), the 1,973rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,900th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Inventor.
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Among inventors, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 222 out of 354. Before him are François Isaac de Rivaz, Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Henrich Focke, Robert Watson-Watt, and Thonmi Sambhota. After him are Raymond Damadian, Laurens Hammond, Marcian Hoff, Ruth Handler, Ricardo Wolf, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
1752 - 1828
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 216
1847 - 1905
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 217
1871 - 1922
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 218
1890 - 1979
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 219
1892 - 1973
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 220
618 - Present
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 221
1813 - 1857
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 222
1936 - 2022
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 223
1895 - 1973
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 224
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 225
1916 - 2002
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 226
1887 - 1981
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 227
1878 - 1972
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 228
Among people born in 1813, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 31. Before him are Auguste Maquet, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Matthias Castrén, Pōmare IV, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, and Jørgen Moe. After him are Adolph Kolping, Agostino Depretis, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Camilla Collett, Alexander Parkes, and Thomas Andrews. Among people deceased in 1857, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 34. Before him are Dionysios Solomos, Christian Daniel Rauch, Vasily Tropinin, William Brown, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Agustina de Aragón. After him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Manuel Oribe, Daniele Manin, Wei Yuan, and Johann Georg Hiedler.
1813 - 1888
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 25
1813 - 1854
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 26
1813 - 1852
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 27
1813 - 1877
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 28
1813 - 1881
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 29
1813 - 1882
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 30
1813 - 1857
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 31
1813 - 1865
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 32
1813 - 1887
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 33
1813 - 1878
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 34
1813 - 1895
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 35
1813 - 1890
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 36
1813 - 1885
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 37
1798 - 1857
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 28
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 29
1776 - 1857
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 30
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 31
1776 - 1857
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 32
1786 - 1857
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 33
1813 - 1857
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 34
1773 - 1857
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 35
1806 - 1857
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 36
1792 - 1857
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 37
1804 - 1857
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 38
1794 - 1857
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 39
1792 - 1857
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 40
Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 1,973 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Erling Braut Håland (2000), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Louisa Adams (1775), Harold Laski (1893), and Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516). After him are Caratacus (15), Ian Wilmut (1944), Mother Shipton (1488), Margaret of England (1240), Adam Sedgwick (1785), and Anthony Asquith (1902).
1810 - 1870
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 1,967
2000 - Present
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 1,968
1889 - 1957
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 1,969
1775 - 1852
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 1,970
1893 - 1950
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 1,971
1516 - 1571
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 1,972
1813 - 1857
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 1,973
15 - 54
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 1,974
1944 - 2023
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 1,975
1488 - 1561
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 1,976
1240 - 1275
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 1,977
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 1,978
1902 - 1968
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 1,979
Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 35. Before him are Sandford Fleming (1827), William Murdoch (1754), John Kemp Starley (1854), Oliver Lodge (1851), Henry Maudslay (1771), and Robert Watson-Watt (1892). After him are Elihu Thomson (1853), James Dyson (1947), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Alexander Parkes (1813), Samuel Morland (1625), and James Nasmyth (1808).
1827 - 1915
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 29
1754 - 1839
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 30
1854 - 1901
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 31
1851 - 1940
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 32
1771 - 1831
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 33
1892 - 1973
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 34
1813 - 1857
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 35
1853 - 1937
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 36
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 37
1803 - 1887
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 38
1813 - 1890
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 39
1625 - 1695
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 40
1808 - 1890
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 41