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John Lennard-Jones

1894 - 1954

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Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lennard-Jones has received more than 93,082 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Lennard-Jones is the 593rd most popular physicist (down from 562nd in 2019), the 3,202nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,878th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Lennard-Jones ranks 593 out of 717. Before him are John D. Barrow, John Robison, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Giovanni Giorgi, and Henry Augustus Rowland. After him are Alvin M. Weinberg, Joan Feynman, Michael Fisher, Lawrence M. Krauss, William Astbury, and Harold Agnew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, John Lennard-Jones ranks 181. Before him are Tiny Sandford, Yan Gamarnik, Raymond Schwartz, Nick Winter, Paul Hörbiger, and Billy Gilbert. After him are Jack Benny, Hans Henny Jahnn, Vitaly Bianki, Estelle Taylor, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Billy Bishop. Among people deceased in 1954, John Lennard-Jones ranks 97. Before him are Ludwik Hirszfeld, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Reinhold Schünzel, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, Alberto Braglia, and Henri Frankfort. After him are Sydney Greenstreet, Pat McDonald, Joe May, Theodore Lyman IV, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and Ivan Maslennikov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lennard-Jones ranks 3,202 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert W. Paul (1869), Adrian Boult (1889), Bob Anderson (1922), Clint Mansell (1963), Amelia Edwards (1831), and James B. Francis (1815). After him are Bob Shaw (1931), William Hallowes Miller (1801), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Bert Jansch (1943), Hywel Dda (880), and John Mawe (1764).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Lennard-Jones ranks 69. Before him are James David Forbes (1809), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Francis Hauksbee (1660), C. P. Snow (1905), John D. Barrow (1952), and John Robison (1739). After him are William Astbury (1898), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Polkinghorne (1930), John Hopkinson (1849), Alfred Ewing (1855), and Peter Mark Roget (1779).

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