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G. M. B. Dobson

1889 - 1975

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Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson (25 February 1889 – 10 March 1976) was a British physicist and meteorologist who did important work on ozone. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. M. B. Dobson has received more than 35,051 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). G. M. B. Dobson is the 442nd most popular physicist (down from 384th in 2019), the 2,036th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,657th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 442 out of 717. Before him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Emil Wiechert, Bruno Rossi, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Eugen Goldstein, and Richard Mollier. After him are Ivan Puluj, Heinrich Rubens, Grote Reber, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Jacques Babinet, and William Robert Grove.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 122. Before him are Lev Karakhan, Imre Schlosser, Richard Boleslawski, Ernst Reuter, Alma Karlin, and Ludwig Kübler. After him are Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Ki Hajar Dewantara, Lloyd Bacon, Tito Schipa, and Edmond Privat. Among people deceased in 1975, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 95. Before him are Boris Blacher, Jan Mukařovský, Mina Witkojc, Kazimierz Fajans, William Hartnell, and Sven Rydell. After him are Tim Buckley, Barbara Hepworth, Carl Lutz, T-Bone Walker, Michał Sopoćko, and Shigeyoshi Inoue.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 2,036 out of 7,765. Before him are Frederick Abberline (1843), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), Saint Alban (300), Lily Collins (1989), John Profumo (1915), and Arthur Sullivan (1842). After him are Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777), Liam Payne (1993), John Maynard Smith (1920), Cecil Beaton (1904), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), and John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 51. Before him are John Henry Poynting (1852), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Watson (1715), John Kerr (1824), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and John Dollond (1706). After him are William Robert Grove (1811), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), John Canton (1718), John Leslie (1766), and Ernest Marsden (1889).

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