1857 - 1942
Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Larmor has received more than 175,917 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Larmor is the 463rd most popular physicist (down from 455th in 2019), the 2,175th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,093rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, Joseph Larmor ranks 463 out of 717. Before him are Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, Yuri Orlov, Max Abraham, and Marian Smoluchowski. After him are John Henry Schwarz, Robert Brout, John Canton, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Katharine Burr Blodgett, and Ole Worm.
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 457
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 458
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 459
1924 - 2020
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 460
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 461
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 462
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 463
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 464
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 465
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 466
1796 - 1877
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 467
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 468
1588 - 1654
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 469
Among people born in 1857, Joseph Larmor ranks 74. Before him are Henry Fairfield Osborn, Léon Charles Thévenin, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, James Edward Keeler, and Simon Hollósy. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Gabriela Zapolska, Stojan Protić, Louis Dollo, Alfred Bruneau, and Albert Ballin. Among people deceased in 1942, Joseph Larmor ranks 106. Before him are Epitácio Pessoa, Olena Teliha, Kiyoura Keigo, Yakov Perelman, Emma Calvé, and Charlie Christian. After him are Jacques-Émile Blanche, Aurel Stodola, Adolf Mayer, Vladimir Petlyakov, Heinrich Vogeler, and Léon Daudet.
1857 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 68
1857 - 1926
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 69
1857 - 1895
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 70
1857 - 1936
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 71
1857 - 1900
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 72
1857 - 1918
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 73
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 74
1857 - 1933
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 75
1857 - 1921
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 76
1857 - 1923
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 77
1857 - 1931
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 78
1857 - 1934
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 79
1857 - 1918
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 80
1865 - 1942
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 100
1906 - 1942
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 101
1850 - 1942
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 102
1882 - 1942
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 103
1858 - 1942
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 104
1916 - 1942
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 105
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 106
1861 - 1942
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 107
1859 - 1942
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 108
1843 - 1942
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 109
1891 - 1942
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 110
1872 - 1942
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 111
1867 - 1942
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 112
Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 2,175 out of 7,765. Before him are Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Ruth Belville (1854), Shane MacGowan (1957), Christine McVie (1943), Reginald Doherty (1872), and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768). After him are Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), Edward Cave (1691), John Ford (1586), Nassau William Senior (1790), and Ian Khama (1953).
1732 - 1811
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 2,169
1854 - 1943
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 2,170
1957 - 2023
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 2,171
1943 - 2022
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 2,172
1872 - 1910
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 2,173
1768 - 1854
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 2,174
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 2,175
1914 - 1987
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 2,176
1920 - 2018
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 2,177
1691 - 1754
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 2,178
1586 - 1639
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 2,179
1790 - 1864
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 2,180
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 2,181
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 54. Before him are John Kerr (1824), Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Dollond (1706), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), William Robert Grove (1811), and Charles Galton Darwin (1887). After him are John Canton (1718), John Leslie (1766), Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), and Michael Berry (1941).
1824 - 1907
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 48
1905 - 1965
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 49
1706 - 1761
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 50
1889 - 1975
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 51
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 52
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 53
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 54
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 55
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 56
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 57
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 58
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 59
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 60