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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 155,465 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Walker is the 410th most popular chemist (down from 406th in 2019), the 2,335th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,473rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 58.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Walker ranks 410 out of 602. Before him are Arthur Aikin, Fausto Elhuyar, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jennifer Doudna, David Warren, and Louis-Sébastien Lenormand. After him are Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Hans Tropsch, and Maud Menten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, John Walker ranks 28. Before him are Swaminarayan, Adolphe Marbot, Friedrich von Berchtold, George Ord, Valentín Gómez Farías, and Louis-Mathieu Molé. After him are George Dawe, François Habeneck, Christian von Steven, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and José de Madrazo y Agudo. Among people deceased in 1859, John Walker ranks 40. Before him are Tatya Tope, Walter Hunt, Princess Anna of Saxony, William Cranch Bond, Horace Mann, and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich. After him are Stefan Bogoridi, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Ye Mingchen, Petrus Borel, and Joseph Diez Gergonne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Walker ranks 2,335 out of 8,785. Before him are Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), John Hadley (1682), Stanley Myers (1930), Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Ephraim Chambers (1680), and Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210). After him are Robert Stevenson (1905), Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735), Brenda Milner (1918), Hilary Mantel (1952), George Buchanan (1506), and William Edward Ayrton (1847).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Walker ranks 55. Before him are Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Luke Howard (1772), John William Draper (1811), Arthur Aikin (1773), and Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954). After him are Peter Atkins (1940), Morris Travers (1872), William Gregor (1761), William Nicholson (1753), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), and Charles Blagden (1748).

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