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Hertha Ayrton

1854 - 1923

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Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hertha Ayrton has received more than 186,441 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Hertha Ayrton is the 99th most popular engineer (up from 116th in 2019), the 1,370th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,555th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hertha Ayrton ranks 99 out of 389. Before her are Karl von Terzaghi, Valdemar Poulsen, Ivan Sechenov, Hans Ledwinka, George Cayley, and Vasily Degtyaryov. After her are Nikolai Polikarpov, Harry Nyquist, Viktor Kaplan, Adrian Newey, Henry Darcy, and Eupalinos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hertha Ayrton ranks 36. Before her are Otto Sverdrup, Charles Algernon Parsons, Alphonse Allais, Zhang Xun, Moritz Moszkowski, and Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza. After her are Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Jean-Marie Guyau, Thomas R. Marshall, and Jacek Malczewski. Among people deceased in 1923, Hertha Ayrton ranks 43. Before her are Georg Luger, Charles Dupuy, Zhang Xun, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Vatroslav Jagić. After her are Dora Pejačević, Théophile Delcassé, Kadambini Ganguly, Alexandre Ribot, Charles de Freycinet, and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 1,370 out of 8,785. Before her are Donovan (1946), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), Cicely Saunders (1918), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), and Frederick Abel (1827). After her are Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Mary de Bohun (1369), Rupert Everett (1959), Penda of Mercia (606), Jack Hawkins (1910), and Alan Walker (1997).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 11. Before her are Colin Chapman (1928), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), Alexander Cunningham (1814), and George Cayley (1773). After her are Adrian Newey (1958), Robert Stephenson (1803), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Patrick Head (1946), William Playfair (1759), and John Loudon McAdam (1756).

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