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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 84,737 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Isaac Roberts is the 306th most popular engineer (down from 288th in 2019), the 3,963rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,926th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Isaac Roberts ranks 306 out of 389. Before him are Franciszek Rychnowski, Frederick Terman, Percy Hobart, Arthur E. Kennelly, Sam Eyde, and Guenther Steiner. After him are Marina Popovich, Ron Tauranac, Charles Combes, John R. Pierce, Othmar Ammann, and Christopher Cockerell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Isaac Roberts ranks 62. Before him are August Malmström, Princess Louise of Prussia, José López Domínguez, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Frederick Sandys, and Edwin Long. After him are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Théodore Aubanel, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, William Michael Rossetti, Charles Walter De Vis, and Catherine Booth. Among people deceased in 1904, Isaac Roberts ranks 84. Before him are Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Fyodor Bredikhin, Karl Moritz Schumann, Princess Marie of Hanover, Frederick Sandys, and Otto von Böhtlingk. After him are Eduard von Martens, Andrei Ryabushkin, Richard Knill Freeman, George Salmon, John Brown Gordon, and Frances Power Cobbe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Isaac Roberts ranks 3,963 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Liddell (1811), Michael Giles (1942), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), John André (1750), Meave Leakey (1942), and Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930). After him are Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), Horace Lamb (1849), William Powell Frith (1819), Gerald Finzi (1901), Maxim (1967), and Richard J. Evans (1947).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Isaac Roberts ranks 30. Before him are James B. Francis (1815), William Froude (1810), Robert W. Paul (1869), Pat Symonds (1953), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), and Mal Evans (1935). After him are Ron Tauranac (1925), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ove Arup (1895), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), and R. J. Mitchell (1895).

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