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John Leslie

1766 - 1832

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Sir John Leslie, FRSE KH (10 April 1766 – 3 November 1832) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat. Leslie gave the first modern account of capillary action in 1802 and froze water using an air-pump in 1810, the first artificial production of ice. In 1804, he experimented with radiant heat using a cubical vessel filled with boiling water. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Leslie has received more than 59,284 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Leslie is the 488th most popular physicist (down from 476th in 2019), the 2,155th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,268th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Leslie ranks 488 out of 851. Before him are Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Smoluchowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, G. M. B. Dobson, and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster. After him are Martin Knudsen, Ivan Puluj, Maurice Karnaugh, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Gordon Gould, and Alexei Starobinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, John Leslie ranks 25. Before him are François-Xavier Fabre, Samuel Wilson, Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, and Joseph Weigl. After him are Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Jacob Perkins, Wilhelm Hisinger, and Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg. Among people deceased in 1832, John Leslie ranks 26. Before him are Carl Friedrich Zelter, Manuel García, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Ghazi Muhammad, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Aleksander Orłowski. After him are Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Kaʻahumanu, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Casimir Pierre Périer, Johann Georg Wagler, and Demetrios Ypsilantis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Leslie ranks 2,155 out of 8,785. Before him are Bob Anderson (1931), Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914), David Gemmell (1948), Bobby Sands (1954), Hilton Valentine (1943), and Lewis Gilbert (1920). After him are Edmund Gunter (1581), Maryam d'Abo (1960), Steve Jones (1955), Charles Kingsley (1819), Thomas Otway (1652), and Claude Choules (1901).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Leslie ranks 53. Before him are John Dollond (1706), Louis Harold Gray (1905), William Watson (1715), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Kerr (1824), and G. M. B. Dobson (1889). After him are William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), and Paul Davies (1946).

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