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James David Forbes

1809 - 1868

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James David Forbes (1809–1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James David Forbes has received more than 77,236 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). James David Forbes is the 573rd most popular physicist (down from 534th in 2019), the 2,866th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,659th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Physicist.

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  • 50.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James David Forbes ranks 573 out of 851. Before him are Carl August von Steinheil, Vladimir Veksler, Nicholas Kurti, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Otto Lehmann, and Gunnar Nordström. After him are Antonio Pacinotti, Ludvig Faddeev, Jean Becquerel, Ole Jacob Broch, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and Dirk Coster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, James David Forbes ranks 55. Before him are Louis Charles Delescluze, Rutherford Alcock, Manuel Montt, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Benjamin Peirce, and Theodor Benfey. After him are Santiago Derqui, Petrus Borel, Aleksey Koltsov, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, and Nicolaas Pieneman. Among people deceased in 1868, James David Forbes ranks 46. Before him are Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Adolphe d'Archiac, John Crawfurd, Antonio Bertoloni, and Bernardo Berro. After him are Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Halfdan Kjerulf, José Tadeo Monagas, Black Kettle, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and Constantin Negruzzi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James David Forbes ranks 2,866 out of 8,785. Before him are John Biscoe (1794), Johnny Claes (1916), Tom Ellis (1978), Alexander Neckam (1157), Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), and Paul Kennedy (1945). After him are Mary Norton (1903), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Cara Delevingne (1992), Jenson Button (1980), and Peter Pears (1910).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James David Forbes ranks 61. Before him are William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), Paul Davies (1946), and Joseph Larmor (1857). After him are Sergey Kapitsa (1928), John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), and Francis Hauksbee (1660).

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