PHYSICIST

John Aitken

1839 - 1919

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John Aitken, FRS, FRSE LLD (18 September 1839 – 14 November 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Aitken has received more than 9,143 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). John Aitken is the 736th most popular physicist (down from 656th in 2019), the 4,478th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,834th in 2019) and the 79th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 45.14

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year John Aitken has had the most page views in the with 899 views, followed by Swedish (801), and English (750). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (101.01%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (80.79%), and Persian (58.65%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Aitken ranks 736 out of 851. Before him are C. R. Hagen, Joseph Polchinski, Walter Gordon, Raja Ramanna, Derek J. de Solla Price, and Seymour Benzer. After him are Gersh Budker, Alan Cottrell, Bernard Lovell, Paul Corkum, Hubert Curien, and George F. R. Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, John Aitken ranks 88. Before him are Nicolaas Pierson, Ignacio Andrade, Almon Brown Strowger, William T. Anderson, Casimiro de Abreu, and Ivan Kuratov. After him are Julius von Hann, Frances Willard, Redvers Buller, John Ballance, Robert Smalls, and George Clement Perkins. Among people deceased in 1919, John Aitken ranks 146. Before him are George Eyser, Huseyn Arablinski, Charles Conrad Abbott, Henning von Holtzendorff, William Michael Rossetti, and Lawrence Lambe. After him are Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Theo de Meester, Horatio Parker, J. Alden Weir, Mikhail Suslin, and Abraham Jacobi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Aitken ranks 4,478 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Mackay (1946), Paul Graham (1964), Chris Craft (1939), Tommy Gemmell (1943), Paul Carrack (1951), and Anne-Marie Duff (1970). After him are Augustus John (1878), Barnes Wallis (1887), Richard Taylor (1962), William Sterndale Bennett (1816), John Farnham (1949), and Sam Tingle (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Aitken ranks 79. Before him are John Polkinghorne (1930), Alfred Ewing (1855), Raymond Gosling (1926), Brandon Carter (1942), Peter Mark Roget (1779), and Julian Barbour (1937). After him are Alan Cottrell (1919), Bernard Lovell (1913), Gilbert Walker (1868), Balfour Stewart (1828), Charles Sheffield (1935), and Brian Cox (1968).

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