1882 - 1948
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Wedderburn has received more than 46,831 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph Wedderburn is the 772nd most popular mathematician (down from 762nd in 2019), the 4,136th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,295th in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 772 out of 823. Before him are Øystein Ore, Dmitri Anosov, Rudy Rucker, Ngô Bảo Châu, Raoul Bott, and Georges de Rham. After him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Francesco Severi, Shinichi Mochizuki, Richard Brauer, Wu Wenjun, and Cédric Villani.
1899 - 1968
HPI: 44.46
Rank: 766
1936 - 2014
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 767
1946 - Present
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 768
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 769
1923 - 2005
HPI: 44.25
Rank: 770
1903 - 1990
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 771
1882 - 1948
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 772
1847 - 1878
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 773
1879 - 1961
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 774
1969 - Present
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 775
1901 - 1977
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 776
1919 - 2017
HPI: 44.07
Rank: 777
1973 - Present
HPI: 44.07
Rank: 778
Among people born in 1882, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 222. Before him are Harry Myers, Juan Guevara, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Jimmy Hogan, Edwin Barclay, and Max Hainle. After him are Péter Tóth, George van Rossem, Edward Van Sloan, Oswald Holmberg, Axel Sjöblom, and Maurice Peeters. Among people deceased in 1948, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 148. Before him are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles A. Beard, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Claude McKay, Edgar Kennedy, and Frank Benford. After him are Juan Esteban Montero, Arthur Whitten Brown, Thomas Mofolo, Adolf Kainz, René Benjamin, and Carl Abrahamsson.
1882 - 1938
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 216
1882 - 1954
HPI: 45.07
Rank: 217
1882 - 1954
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 218
1882 - 1974
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 219
1882 - 1955
HPI: 44.80
Rank: 220
1882 - 1961
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 221
1882 - 1948
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 222
1882 - 1967
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 223
1882 - 1955
HPI: 44.10
Rank: 224
1882 - 1964
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 225
1882 - 1969
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 226
1882 - 1951
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 227
1882 - 1957
HPI: 43.78
Rank: 228
1860 - 1948
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 142
1874 - 1948
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 143
1914 - 1948
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 144
1889 - 1948
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 145
1890 - 1948
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 146
1883 - 1948
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 147
1882 - 1948
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 148
1879 - 1948
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 149
1886 - 1948
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 150
1876 - 1948
HPI: 43.60
Rank: 151
1903 - 1948
HPI: 43.24
Rank: 152
1885 - 1948
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 153
1896 - 1948
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 154
Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 4,136 out of 7,765. Before him are Robin Cook (1946), John Abbot (1751), Roger Allam (1953), John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), Matthew Lewis (1989), and Douglas Slocombe (1913). After him are Jacqueline Wilson (1945), Vincent Nichols (1945), Richard Gunn (1871), Val McDermid (1955), Ian Charleson (1949), and John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792).
1946 - 2005
HPI: 44.23
Rank: 4,130
1751 - 1840
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 4,131
1953 - Present
HPI: 44.20
Rank: 4,132
1896 - 1989
HPI: 44.20
Rank: 4,133
1989 - Present
HPI: 44.20
Rank: 4,134
1913 - 2016
HPI: 44.20
Rank: 4,135
1882 - 1948
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 4,136
1945 - Present
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 4,137
1945 - Present
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 4,138
1871 - 1961
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 4,139
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 4,140
1949 - 1990
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 4,141
1792 - 1840
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 4,142
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Joseph Wedderburn ranks 87. Before him are William Henry Young (1863), Benjamin Robins (1707), Simon Donaldson (1957), Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Hopkins (1793), and William Gemmell Cochran (1909). After him are Richard Taylor (1962), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), George Peacock (1791), Horace Lamb (1849), Richard K. Guy (1916), and Frank Morley (1860).
1863 - 1942
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 81
1707 - 1751
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 82
1957 - Present
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 83
1832 - 1916
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 84
1793 - 1866
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 85
1909 - 1980
HPI: 44.57
Rank: 86
1882 - 1948
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 87
1962 - Present
HPI: 44.01
Rank: 88
1848 - 1928
HPI: 43.67
Rank: 89
1791 - 1858
HPI: 43.57
Rank: 90
1849 - 1934
HPI: 42.71
Rank: 91
1916 - 2020
HPI: 42.31
Rank: 92
1860 - 1937
HPI: 42.15
Rank: 93