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John Tyndall

1820 - 1893

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John Tyndall FRS (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Tyndall has received more than 620,794 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). John Tyndall is the 298th most popular physicist (down from 273rd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 47th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Physicist.

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  • 620k

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  • 60.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year John Tyndall has had the most page views in the with 73,635 views, followed by Spanish (12,777), and German (9,072). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Pashto (310.39%), Korean (267.01%), and Burmese (48.22%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Tyndall ranks 298 out of 851. Before her are Anne L'Huillier, Nevill Francis Mott, Pascual Jordan, Qian Xuesen, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Armen Sarkissian. After her are George Smoot, William Daniel Phillips, Freeman Dyson, Andre Geim, Giorgio Parisi, and Jack Steinberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, John Tyndall ranks 21. Before her are William John Macquorn Rankine, Lewis A. Swift, Mathilde Bonaparte, Edmond Becquerel, Heungseon Daewongun, and Yaqub Beg. After her are Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Tenniel, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Édouard Roche, and Şevkefza Kadın. Among people deceased in 1893, John Tyndall ranks 15. Before her are Jan Matejko, Edwin Booth, Josef Stefan, Jules Ferry, Ernst Kummer, and Baron Alexander von Bach. After her are Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Alfredo Catalani, Ferenc Erkel, and Abner Doubleday.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Tyndall ranks 49 out of 549. Before her are Harald Gille (1103), Ethel Voynich (1864), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Saint Gall (550), Eileen Gray (1878), and John Toland (1670). After her are Edward England (1685), Dolores O'Riordan (1971), David Kelly (1929), William C. Campbell (1930), Richard Cantillon (1680), and Mary Jane Kelly (1863).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ireland

Among physicists born in Ireland, John Tyndall ranks 3. Before her are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), and Ernest Walton (1903). After her are George Francis FitzGerald (1851), George Johnstone Stoney (1826), John Sealy Townsend (1868), and John Joly (1857).

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