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Joseph Swan

1828 - 1914

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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.In 1904, Swan was knighted by King Edward VII, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. He had received the highest decoration in France, the Legion of Honour, when he visited the 1881 International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Swan has received more than 840,068 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Joseph Swan is the 268th most popular physicist (down from 222nd in 2019), the 880th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 717th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Physicist.

Joseph Swan is most famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Swan ranks 268 out of 717Before him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Philip Warren Anderson, Hugh David Politzer, Jack Steinberger, and Henry Way Kendall. After him are Patrick Blackett, Douglas Osheroff, Andre Geim, Brian Josephson, John Tyndall, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Joseph Swan ranks 17Before him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Louise of the Netherlands, Albert Marth, Albert of Saxony, John Langdon Down, and Ferdinand Cohn. After him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Paul Gachet, Alexander Butlerov, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, and Edmond François Valentin About. Among people deceased in 1914, Joseph Swan ranks 25Before him are Ambrose Bierce, Alphonse Bertillon, Alexander Samsonov, Georges Picquart, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Joseph Chamberlain. After him are Alain-Fournier, John Tenniel, Charles Péguy, Empress Shōken, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, and Theodor Kittelsen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Swan ranks 880 out of 7,765Before him are Terry Jones (1942), Tony Richardson (1928), William Holman Hunt (1827), Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), and Rob Halford (1951). After him are Thomas Chatterton (1752), Frederic Leighton (1830), Mike Newell (1942), Archer Martin (1910), James Paul Moody (1887), and James Lovelock (1919).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Swan ranks 35Before him are Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), and John Cockcroft (1897). After him are Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Freeman Dyson (1923), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), and Stephen Hales (1677).