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PHYSICIST

John Dollond

1706 - 1761

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dollond has received more than 84,223 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). John Dollond is the 432nd most popular physicist (up from 441st in 2019), the 1,911th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,974th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 25

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Dollond ranks 432 out of 717Before him are Walther Gerlach, Rudolf Peierls, Evgeny Lifshitz, Alain Aspect, Sameera Moussa, and Marie Alfred Cornu. After him are Gene Amdahl, Gaspard de Prony, Saul Perlmutter, Giovanni Battista Amici, Emil Wiechert, and Bruno Rossi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, John Dollond ranks 7Before him are Benjamin Franklin, Émilie du Châtelet, Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, and Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis. After him are John Baskerville, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, and John Belchier. Among people deceased in 1761, John Dollond ranks 12Before him are Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Tarabai, Thomas Simpson, Clemens August of Bavaria, Tokugawa Ieshige, and Pierre Fauchard. After him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Giovanni Poleni, Francesco Feo, Johann Georg Pinsel, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Dollond ranks 1,911 out of 7,765Before him are William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (1184), William Buckland (1784), Ine of Wessex (700), Anne Conway (1631), Gregor MacGregor (1786), and E. Nesbit (1858). After him are John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859), Robert Smith (1959), Edith Pargeter (1913), Neil Tennant (1954), Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), and John Alcock (1892).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Dollond ranks 50Before him are William Sturgeon (1783), John Henry Poynting (1852), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Watson (1715), John Kerr (1824), and Louis Harold Gray (1905). After him are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), William Robert Grove (1811), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), John Canton (1718), and John Leslie (1766).