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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 73,074 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). James David Forbes is the 534th most popular physicist (down from 503rd in 2019), the 2,666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,401st in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Physicist.

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  • 73k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James David Forbes ranks 534 out of 717. Before him are Dmitri Ivanenko, Georg Hermann Quincke, Woldemar Voigt, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Augusto Righi, and Antonio Pacinotti. After him are Brian Greene, Knut Ångström, Alfred Kleiner, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and Wallace Clement Sabine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, James David Forbes ranks 48. Before him are Kit Carson, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Cyrus McCormick, Rutherford Alcock, Louis Charles Delescluze, and Manuel Montt. After him are Johann Heinrich Blasius, Benjamin Peirce, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Oswald Heer, William B. Travis, and Karl Bodmer. Among people deceased in 1868, James David Forbes ranks 43. Before him are Giuseppe Abbati, Emanuel Leutze, Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, Adolphe d'Archiac, Black Kettle, and John Crawfurd. After him are James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Antonio Bertoloni, José Tadeo Monagas, Bernardo Berro, Constantin Negruzzi, and Halfdan Kjerulf.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James David Forbes ranks 2,666 out of 7,765. Before him are Barry Morse (1918), Mary Sidney (1561), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), William Foulke (1874), and Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871). After him are Radclyffe Hall (1880), Simon Le Bon (1958), Lady Arbella Stuart (1575), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Peggy Ashcroft (1907), and Eleanor of Scotland (1433).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James David Forbes ranks 63. Before him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), Paul Davies (1946), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928). After him are William Edward Ayrton (1847), Francis Hauksbee (1660), C. P. Snow (1905), John D. Barrow (1952), John Robison (1739), and John Lennard-Jones (1894).

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