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Isaac Roberts

1829 - 1904

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Isaac Roberts FRS (27 January 1829 – 17 July 1904) was a Welsh engineer and businessman best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society in England and was a fellow of the Royal Geological Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Roberts has received more than 77,942 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Roberts is the 290th most popular engineer (up from 299th in 2019), the 3,934th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,409th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Isaac Roberts ranks 290 out of 323Before him are Jesse Ramsden, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Yuri Artsutanov, Boris Lisunov, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Otmar Szafnauer. After him are Butler Lampson, Octave Chanute, R. J. Mitchell, Guenther Steiner, Louis Armand, and Hugh Latimer Dryden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Isaac Roberts ranks 53Before him are Moritz Cantor, Alfred Newton, Frederick Sandys, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Edwin Long, and Epameinondas Deligeorgis. After him are José López Domínguez, William Michael Rossetti, Théodore Aubanel, Charles Walter De Vis, Catherine Booth, and Ludvig Lorenz. Among people deceased in 1904, Isaac Roberts ranks 79Before him are Miltiadis Gouskos, Frederick Sandys, Andrei Ryabushkin, Manuel Candamo, Karl Moritz Schumann, and Rodolfo Amando Philippi. After him are Sumner Paine, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Fyodor Bredikhin, Charles Foster, Richard Knill Freeman, and John Brown Gordon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Isaac Roberts ranks 3,934 out of 7,765Before him are Virginia McKenna (1931), Frank Lampard (1948), Dennis Brain (1921), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936), Henry Lawes (1595), and Sam Brown (1964). After him are Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Philip Hammond (1955), Lloyd Hildebrand (1870), James Hogg (1770), Ralph Cudworth (1617), and Alice Eve (1982).

Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Isaac Roberts ranks 30Before him are Mal Evans (1935), Robert W. Paul (1869), James B. Francis (1815), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), and Jesse Ramsden (1735). After him are R. J. Mitchell (1895), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), and Pat Symonds (1953).