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Frederick Scott Archer

1813 - 1857

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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 127,585 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Scott Archer is the 263rd most popular inventor (down from 222nd in 2019), the 2,552nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,968th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Inventor.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 263 out of 426. Before him are Robert Cornelius, Petrache Poenaru, Arthur Wynne, Jacob W. Davis, Wan Hu, and Joseph-Armand Bombardier. After him are Harry Brearley, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Louis Lumière, Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, and François Isaac de Rivaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 49. Before him are Antonio García Gutiérrez, Stephen Heller, József Eötvös, Ludwig Leichhardt, Moritz Wagner, and Nikolay Ogarev. After him are Errico Petrella, John C. Frémont, Prince August of Württemberg, Stephen A. Douglas, Otto Ludwig, and Aloys Sprenger. Among people deceased in 1857, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 46. Before him are Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Georg Hiedler, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Abe Masahiro, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, and Wei Yuan. After him are Juan Lindo, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Johann Schweigger, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Stefano Franscini, and Manuel José Quintana.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 2,552 out of 8,785. Before him are Edith Durham (1863), Blanche of England (1392), Philip Stone (1924), Simon Le Bon (1958), George Gissing (1857), and James Galway (1939). After him are Robert Kerr (1882), Walter Legge (1906), Harry Brearley (1871), Alan Lee (1947), Edwin Landseer (1802), and Bryan Johnson (1926).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 42. Before him are Clive Sinclair (1940), John Kemp Starley (1854), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Abraham Darby I (1678), James Nasmyth (1808), and Arthur Wynne (1871). After him are Harry Brearley (1871), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Samuel Morland (1625), John Barnard (1946), Joseph Aspdin (1778), and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850).

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