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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 51,372 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. John Sealy Townsend is the 541st most popular physicist (down from 524th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 144th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year John Sealy Townsend has had the most page views in the with 5,629 views, followed by Japanese (1,546), and Russian (1,229). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (108.38%), Irish (106.56%), and Catalan (75.82%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Sealy Townsend ranks 541 out of 851. Before him are Macedonio Melloni, Leonid Mandelstam, Knut Ångström, Dmitri Ivanenko, Abraham Alikhanov, and Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski. After him are Alfred Perot, Artem Alikhanian, Heinz von Foerster, Norman Holter, Lev Artsimovich, and C. P. Snow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, John Sealy Townsend ranks 126. Before him are Théodore Steeg, Delfim Moreira, Alfred Fowler, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Edward S. Curtis, and Anna Missuna. After him are Filipp Makharadze, Marie Dressler, Juventino Rosas, Georges Lacombe, Constance Markievicz, and Mikhail Pokrovsky. Among people deceased in 1957, John Sealy Townsend ranks 130. Before him are Joseph Canteloube, Bugs Moran, Frank País, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Augusto Genina, and Ralph Benatzky. After him are Othmar Schoeck, Grace Coolidge, James Whale, Óscar Domínguez, William Cameron Menzies, and Oldřich Duras.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Sealy Townsend ranks 140 out of 549. Before him are Sally Oldfield (1947), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), Yvonne Farrell (1951), Peter Brown (1935), Aphex Twin (1971), and John Boyne (1971). After him are John Bruton (1947), Kathleen Antonelli (1921), Anne de Mortimer (1390), Moya Brennan (1952), Robbie Keane (1980), and Adomnán (624).

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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), Ernest Walton (1903), John Tyndall (1820), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), and George Johnstone Stoney (1826). After him are John Joly (1857).

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