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John Sealy Townsend

1868 - 1957

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Sir John Sealy Edward Townsend, FRS (7 June 1868 – 16 February 1957) was an Irish-British mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases (concerning the kinetics of electrons and ions) and directly measured the electrical charge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Sealy Townsend has received more than 51,884 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. John Sealy Townsend is the 524th most popular physicist (down from 508th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 137th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Sealy Townsend ranks 524 out of 717. Before him are Robert H. Dicke, Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, Lester Germer, Max Wien, and Sergey Kapitsa. After him are Gerard K. O'Neill, Samuel T. Cohen, Yakir Aharonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Georg Hermann Quincke, and Woldemar Voigt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, John Sealy Townsend ranks 124. Before him are Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Frank Watson Dyson, Zhang Binglin, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, René de Saussure, and Mikhail Pokrovsky. After him are Paul Warburg, Emilie Snethlage, Nikolaos Trikoupis, José Vianna da Motta, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, and Ștefan Luchian. Among people deceased in 1957, John Sealy Townsend ranks 130. Before him are Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Othmar Schoeck, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Elizabeth Hesselblad, William Cameron Menzies, and Grace Coolidge. After him are Norma Talmadge, Arie de Jong, Luigi Ganna, Alice Milliat, Oldřich Duras, and Kulyash Baiseitova.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Sealy Townsend ranks 145 out of 501. Before him are Colm Meaney (1953), Brendan Behan (1923), Pat Cox (1952), Ninette de Valois (1898), William Howard Russell (1820), and Kathleen Lonsdale (1903). After him are Edward Sabine (1788), George Browne (1698), George Allman (1812), George Abraham Grierson (1851), Catald (700), and Mary Harris Jones (1837).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ireland

Among physicists born in Ireland, John Sealy Townsend ranks 6. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), John Tyndall (1820), Ernest Walton (1903), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), and George Johnstone Stoney (1826). After him are John Joly (1857).

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