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John Kerr

1824 - 1907

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John Kerr FRS (; 17 December 1824 – 15 August 1907) was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Kerr has received more than 44,467 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. John Kerr is the 470th most popular physicist (down from 401st in 2019), the 1,996th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,704th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Physicist.

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  • 44k

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  • 53.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Kerr ranks 470 out of 851. Before him are Pierre Victor Auger, Gaspard de Prony, Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, Marie Alfred Cornu, and Dennis W. Sciama. After him are Jacques Babinet, Pyotr Lebedev, Clarence Zener, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Anatole Abragam, and Max Abraham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, John Kerr ranks 44. Before him are Adolphe Monticelli, Avram Iancu, Pierre-Émile Martin, Levi P. Morton, Alexander William Williamson, and Mikhail Loris-Melikov. After him are Vladimir Stasov, Branko Radičević, George Speck, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Emmanuel Frémiet, and Antonio Ghislanzoni. Among people deceased in 1907, John Kerr ranks 43. Before him are Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Marko Vovchok, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Nicolae Grigorescu, Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and William, Prince of Wied. After him are Giuseppe Saracco, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, Nakayama Yoshiko, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, and Paul Julius Möbius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Kerr ranks 1,996 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Robert Morley (1908), Colin Renfrew (1937), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Tom Hiddleston (1981), and George Mary Searle (1839). After him are William Smith (1813), Eric Woolfson (1945), John Butler Yeats (1839), Michael Dummett (1925), Joe Davis (1901), and Unity Mitford (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Kerr ranks 51. Before him are John Henry Poynting (1852), John Canton (1718), John Dollond (1706), Louis Harold Gray (1905), William Watson (1715), and Dennis W. Sciama (1926). After him are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889).

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