1739 - 1805
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 8,042 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Robison is the 476th most popular physicist, the 2,213th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 61st most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, John Robison ranks 476 out of 721. Before him are Maurice Karnaugh, Eric Allin Cornell, Jules Jamin, Yulii Khariton, Ralph H. Fowler, and Yuval Ne'eman. After him are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Robert Brout, Pyotr Lebedev, Richard C. Tolman, Anatoly Alexandrov, and Boris Rosing.
1924 - Present
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 470
1961 - Present
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 471
1818 - 1886
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 472
1904 - 1996
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 473
1889 - 1944
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 474
1925 - 2006
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 475
1739 - 1805
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 476
1898 - 1979
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 477
1928 - 2011
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 478
1866 - 1912
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 479
1881 - 1948
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 480
1903 - 1994
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 481
1869 - 1933
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 482
Among people born in 1739, John Robison ranks 14. Before him are George Clinton, Charles-François Lebrun, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Chalgrin, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. After him are Jean-François de La Harpe, Frei Galvão, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Juan de Villanueva, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, and John Rutledge. Among people deceased in 1805, John Robison ranks 20. Before him are William Paley, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Conrad Moench, Pehr Osbeck, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. After him are Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Thomas Wedgwood, Mihály Csokonai, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen.
1739 - 1812
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 8
1739 - 1824
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 9
1739 - 1807
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 10
1739 - 1811
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 11
1739 - 1817
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 12
1739 - 1791
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 13
1739 - 1805
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 14
1739 - 1803
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 15
1739 - 1822
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 16
1739 - 1767
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 17
1739 - 1811
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 18
1739 - 1804
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 19
1739 - 1800
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 20
1743 - 1805
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 14
1735 - 1805
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 15
1744 - 1805
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 16
1723 - 1805
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 17
1755 - 1805
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 18
1737 - 1805
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 19
1739 - 1805
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 20
1765 - 1805
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 21
1771 - 1805
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 22
1773 - 1805
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 23
1743 - 1805
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 24
1728 - 1805
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 25
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Robison ranks 2,213 out of 6,924. Before him are Olivia Colman (1974), Alfred Deller (1912), Mark Rylance (1960), Richard Baxter (1615), Jimmy Greaves (1940), and Mark Williams (1959). After him are John Stott (1921), Thandie Newton (1972), Ken Robinson (1950), James Herbert Brennan (1940), John Sulston (1942), and Philippa Foot (1920).
1974 - Present
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 2,207
1912 - 1979
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 2,208
1960 - Present
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 2,209
1615 - 1691
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 2,210
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 2,211
1959 - Present
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 2,212
1739 - 1805
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 2,213
1921 - 2011
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 2,214
1972 - Present
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 2,215
1950 - 2020
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 2,216
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 2,217
1942 - 2018
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 2,218
1920 - 2010
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 2,219
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Robison ranks 61. Before him are John Dollond (1706), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), John Leslie (1766), William Robert Grove (1811), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After him are Paul Davies (1946), James David Forbes (1809), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Michael Green (1946), C. P. Snow (1905), and John Hopkinson (1849).
1706 - 1761
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 55
1887 - 1962
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 56
1857 - 1942
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 57
1766 - 1832
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 58
1811 - 1896
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 59
1889 - 1944
HPI: 62.75
Rank: 60
1739 - 1805
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 61
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 62
1809 - 1868
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 63
1847 - 1908
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 64
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 65
1905 - 1980
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 66
1849 - 1898
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 67