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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 34,774 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). G. M. B. Dobson is the 485th most popular physicist (down from 442nd in 2019), the 2,137th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,031st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year G. M. B. Dobson has had the most page views in the with 3,364 views, followed by Hindi (2,276), and Arabic (1,930). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (379.66%), Slovenian (66.52%), and Hindi (17.32%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 485 out of 851. Before him are Emil Wiechert, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Smoluchowski, and Vilhelm Bjerknes. After him are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, John Leslie, Martin Knudsen, Ivan Puluj, Maurice Karnaugh, and Johann Heinrich Schulze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 129. Before him are Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Lev Mekhlis, Ernst Reuter, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Kōichi Kido, and Kanji Ishiwara. After him are Edmond Privat, Bernhard Karlgren, Lloyd Bacon, Zhang Qun, Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, and Albin Stenroos. Among people deceased in 1975, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 104. Before him are Mina Witkojc, Sven Rydell, Georg Ots, Tajuddin Ahmad, Jacques Duclos, and Carl Lutz. After him are Tim Buckley, Javier Ambrois, Shigeyoshi Inoue, William Hartnell, Sisowath Sirik Matak, and W. V. D. Hodge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 2,137 out of 8,785. Before him are Rosamund Clifford (1150), Walter Pater (1839), John Hannah (1962), John Illsley (1949), Lady Katherine Grey (1540), and Marie Stopes (1880). After him are Patrick Magee (1922), Nigel Hawthorne (1929), Ian Dury (1942), Dodie Smith (1896), Rick Astley (1966), and Kevin McNally (1956).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, G. M. B. Dobson ranks 52. Before him are John Canton (1718), John Dollond (1706), Louis Harold Gray (1905), William Watson (1715), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), and John Kerr (1824). After him are John Leslie (1766), William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), and C. P. Snow (1905).

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