1718 - 1772
John Canton (31 July 1718 – 22 March 1772) was a British physicist. He was born in Middle Street Stroud, Gloucestershire, to a weaver, John Canton (b. 1687) and Esther (née Davis). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Canton has received more than 47,920 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Canton is the 466th most popular physicist (down from 435th in 2019), the 2,199th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,943rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, John Canton ranks 466 out of 717. Before him are Yuri Orlov, Max Abraham, Marian Smoluchowski, Joseph Larmor, John Henry Schwarz, and Robert Brout. After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Ole Worm, Raoul Pictet, Yuval Ne'eman, and Takaaki Kajita.
1924 - 2020
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 460
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 461
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 462
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 463
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 464
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 465
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 466
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 467
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 468
1588 - 1654
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 469
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 470
1925 - 2006
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 471
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 472
Among people born in 1718, John Canton ranks 14. Before him are Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Jacob Christian Schäffer, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Antoine de Chézy, and Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. After him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, William Hunter, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, and George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. Among people deceased in 1772, John Canton ranks 14. Before him are Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Gottfried Achenwall, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, and Augustin Ehrensvärd. After him are Pyotr Saltykov, Charles Pinot Duclos, Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Madhavrao I, Shah Jahan III, and Alexander Kokorinov.
1718 - 1783
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 8
1718 - 1751
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 9
1718 - 1790
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 10
1718 - 1804
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 11
1718 - 1798
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 12
1718 - 1793
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 13
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 14
1718 - 1773
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 15
1718 - 1802
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 16
1718 - 1783
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 17
1718 - 1763
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 18
1718 - 1795
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 19
1718 - 1792
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 20
1696 - 1772
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 8
1724 - 1772
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 9
1719 - 1772
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 10
1723 - 1772
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 11
1711 - 1772
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 12
1710 - 1772
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 13
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 14
1698 - 1772
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 15
1704 - 1772
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 16
1699 - 1772
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 17
1745 - 1772
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 18
1711 - 1772
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 19
1726 - 1772
HPI: 43.45
Rank: 20
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Canton ranks 2,199 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Harris (1957), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), Peter James (1948), Richard Baxter (1615), Marjorie Boulton (1924), and Norman Wisdom (1915). After him are Noel Redding (1945), Peter Mayle (1939), Roy Salvadori (1922), Damian Lewis (1971), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), and David Trimble (1944).
1957 - Present
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 2,193
1406 - 1455
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 2,194
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 2,195
1615 - 1691
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 2,196
1924 - 2017
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 2,197
1915 - 2010
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 2,198
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 2,199
1945 - 2003
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 2,200
1939 - 2018
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,201
1922 - 2012
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,202
1971 - Present
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 2,203
1886 - 1946
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 2,204
1944 - 2022
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 2,205
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Canton ranks 55. Before him are Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Dollond (1706), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), William Robert Grove (1811), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), and Joseph Larmor (1857). After him are John Leslie (1766), Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), and Paul Davies (1946).
1905 - 1965
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 49
1706 - 1761
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 50
1889 - 1975
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 51
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 52
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 53
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 54
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 55
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 56
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 57
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 58
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 59
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 60
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 61