1766 - 1832
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, John Leslie ranks 476 out of 717. Before 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.
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 470
1925 - 2006
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 471
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 472
1790 - 1868
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 473
1862 - 1951
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 474
1715 - 1794
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 475
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 476
1903 - 1994
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 477
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 478
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 479
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 480
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 481
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 482
Among people born in 1766, John Leslie ranks 25. Before 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 28. Before 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.
1766 - 1837
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 19
1766 - 1822
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 20
1766 - 1842
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 21
1766 - 1854
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 22
1766 - 1833
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 23
1766 - 1815
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 24
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 25
1766 - 1846
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 26
1766 - 1828
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 27
1766 - 1839
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 28
1766 - 1815
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 29
1766 - 1826
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 30
1766 - 1852
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 31
1788 - 1832
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 22
1793 - 1832
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 23
1795 - 1832
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 24
1777 - 1832
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 25
1756 - 1832
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 26
1768 - 1832
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 27
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 28
1754 - 1832
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 29
1778 - 1832
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 30
1777 - 1832
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 31
1771 - 1832
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 32
1752 - 1832
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 33
1781 - 1832
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 34
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Leslie ranks 2,274 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1891 - 1959
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 2,268
1907 - 1994
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 2,269
1983 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 2,270
1886 - 1979
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 2,271
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 2,272
750 - 740
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 2,273
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 2,274
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 2,275
1969 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 2,276
1889 - 1922
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 2,277
1843 - 1914
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 2,278
1893 - 1964
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 2,279
1746 - 1799
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 2,280
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Leslie ranks 56. Before 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).
1706 - 1761
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 50
1889 - 1975
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 51
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 52
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 53
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 54
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 55
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 56
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 57
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 58
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 59
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 60
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 61
1928 - 2012
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 62