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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 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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  • 18

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  • 7.11

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  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 222 out of 354Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 31Before 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 34Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 1,973 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Frederick Scott Archer ranks 35Before 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).