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John Robison

1739 - 1805

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John Robison FRSE (4 February 1739 – 30 January 1805) was a British physicist and mathematician. He was a professor of natural philosophy (the precursor of natural science) at the University of Edinburgh.A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society when it received its royal warrant, he was appointed as the first general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783–98). Robison invented the siren and also worked with James Watt on an early steam car. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Robison has received more than 9,491 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). John Robison is the 590th most popular physicist (down from 588th in 2019), the 2,992nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,153rd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Physicist.

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Over the past year John Robison has had the most page views in the with 3,624 views, followed by Spanish (3,003), and Portuguese (2,084). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (65.41%), Spanish (27.62%), and Danish (25.52%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Robison ranks 590 out of 851. Before him are Yakov Frenkel, Franco Rasetti, William D. Coolidge, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, and Sergey Kapitsa. After him are Prosper-René Blondlot, Georg Adolf Erman, Wallace Clement Sabine, Clyde Cowan, Joan Feynman, and Seth Neddermeyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, John Robison ranks 19. Before him are Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Jean-François de La Harpe, Frei Galvão, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, and Juan de Villanueva. After him are Johann Beckmann, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Sophronius of Vratsa, John Rutledge, and George Clymer. Among people deceased in 1805, John Robison ranks 25. Before him are William Paley, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville. After him are Mihály Csokonai, Thomas Wedgwood, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Robison ranks 2,992 out of 8,785. Before him are Hubert Parry (1848), Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Pat Jennings (1945), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Ray Lankester (1847), and Sidney Robinson (1876). After him are Jimmy Johnstone (1944), Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Piers Morgan (1965), Ronald Lacey (1935), Charles Crichton (1910), and Michael Winner (1935).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Robison ranks 63. Before him are Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), Paul Davies (1946), Joseph Larmor (1857), James David Forbes (1809), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928). After him are John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Frederick Guthrie (1833), and Michael Berry (1941).

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