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John Canton

1718 - 1772

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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 47,439 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

Among physicists, John Canton ranks 466 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, John Canton ranks 14Before 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 14Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Canton ranks 2,199 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Canton ranks 55Before 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).