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John Walker

1781 - 1859

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John Walker (29 May 1781 – 1 May 1859) was an English inventor who invented the friction match. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Walker has received more than 150,237 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Walker is the 406th most popular chemist, the 2,479th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 56th most popular British Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Walker ranks 406 out of 509. Before him are William Nicholson, Georges Urbain, James Smithson, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, and Joseph Achille Le Bel. After him are Phoebus Levene, Adolph Frank, Gaston Tissandier, Asima Chatterjee, Morris Travers, and Albert Niemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, John Walker ranks 27. Before him are Johann Baptist von Spix, Swaminarayan, Valentín Gómez Farías, François Habeneck, Louis-Mathieu Molé, and Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela. After him are Adolphe Marbot, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Johann Friedrich Meckel, George Dawe, Henri Cassini, and Christian von Steven. Among people deceased in 1859, John Walker ranks 40. Before him are Sergey Aksakov, Carl Adolph Agardh, F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, William Cranch Bond, Walter Hunt, and William H. Prescott. After him are José de Madrazo y Agudo, Horace Mann, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Thaddeus Bulgarin, Ye Mingchen, and Mountstuart Elphinstone.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Walker ranks 2,479 out of 7,765. Before him are Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), John Soane (1753), Mary McAleese (1951), Edith Durham (1863), and John Mahoney (1940). After him are G. I. Taylor (1886), Jamie Oliver (1975), Robert Chambers (1802), Simon Callow (1949), Sol Campbell (1974), and Jock Stein (1922).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Walker ranks 56. Before him are John William Draper (1811), Peter Atkins (1940), William Gregor (1761), Luke Howard (1772), William Nicholson (1753), and Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954). After him are Morris Travers (1872), Edward Charles Howard (1774), Arthur Aikin (1773), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Frederick Abel (1827), and Robin Hill (1899).

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