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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. One side of the cube is composed of highly polished metal, two of dull metal (copper) and one side painted black. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Leslie has received more than 57,249 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. John Leslie is the 476th most popular physicist (down from 457th in 2019), the 2,274th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,108th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Leslie ranks 476 out of 717Before him are Raoul Pictet, Yuval Ne'eman, Takaaki Kajita, Claude Pouillet, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost. After him are Anatoly Alexandrov, Konstantin Novoselov, Maurice Karnaugh, William Stanley Jr., Pierre Victor Auger, and Otto Lehmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, John Leslie ranks 25Before him are François-Xavier Fabre, Slimane of Morocco, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Samuel Wilson, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, and Guillaume Philibert Duhesme. After him are Joseph Weigl, Samuel Frederick Gray, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Benjamin Smith Barton, John Farey Sr., and Wilhelm Hisinger. Among people deceased in 1832, John Leslie ranks 28Before him are Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Ghazi Muhammad, Aleksander Orłowski, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, and Kaʻahumanu. After him are Franz Xaver von Zach, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Casimir Pierre Périer, Karl Rudolphi, Antonio Scarpa, and Henri Cassini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Leslie ranks 2,274 out of 7,765Before him are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891), Frederick Copleston (1907), Felicity Jones (1983), Rebecca Clarke (1886), Cary Elwes (1962), and Æthelheard of Wessex (750). After him are Tony Banks (1950), Richard Hammond (1969), Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889), David Gill (1843), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), and William Curtis (1746).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Leslie ranks 56Before him are John Dollond (1706), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), William Robert Grove (1811), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), and John Canton (1718). After him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), Paul Davies (1946), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928).