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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 engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hertha Ayrton has received more than 171,396 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Hertha Ayrton is the 118th most popular engineer (up from 170th in 2019), the 1,560th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,029th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Engineer.

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  • 55.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hertha Ayrton ranks 118 out of 323. Before her are Pierre Clostermann, Alexander Cunningham, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Alexander Lodygin, Robert Stephenson, and Álvaro del Portillo. After her are John A. Roebling, Flaminio Bertoni, Alexandre Darracq, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Borys Paton, and Franz Reuleaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Hertha Ayrton ranks 41. Before her are Lady Randolph Churchill, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Zhang Xun, Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Takahashi Korekiyo, and Friedrich Alfred Krupp. After her are Jean-Marie Guyau, Thomas R. Marshall, John Kemp Starley, Aletta Jacobs, Sergei Shchukin, and Jacek Malczewski. Among people deceased in 1923, Hertha Ayrton ranks 42. Before her are Georg Luger, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Zhang Xun, Vatroslav Jagić, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Alexander Lodygin. After her are Bonar Law, Charles Dupuy, Alexandre Ribot, Charles de Freycinet, Damat Ferid Pasha, and Mohammad Yaqub Khan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 1,560 out of 7,765. Before her are Karen Armstrong (1944), Ronnie O'Sullivan (1975), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Ally McCoist (1962), Bertram Ramsay (1883), and George Shaw (1751). After her are Margaret Burbidge (1919), Olaf Stapledon (1886), John Smyth (1570), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), William Auld (1924), and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Hertha Ayrton ranks 15. Before her are Charles Rolls (1877), George Cayley (1773), Patrick Head (1946), Adrian Newey (1958), Alexander Cunningham (1814), and Robert Stephenson (1803). After her are John Loudon McAdam (1756), John Bagot Glubb (1897), John Smeaton (1724), William Playfair (1759), W. Ross Ashby (1903), and André Waterkeyn (1917).

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