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Luke Howard

1772 - 1864

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Luke Howard, (28 November 1772 – 21 March 1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luke Howard has received more than 189,625 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Luke Howard is the 392nd most popular chemist (up from 398th in 2019), the 2,353rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,448th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Chemist.

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  • 51.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Luke Howard ranks 392 out of 509. Before him are David Warren, Benjamin List, Leo Sternbach, John Tukey, Peter Atkins, and William Gregor. After him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Leonor Michaelis, Edward Calvin Kendall, Otto Ambros, Nikolay Beketov, and Ernst Otto Beckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Luke Howard ranks 27. Before him are Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Mikhail Speransky, Tarrare, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Hồ Xuân Hương, and Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. After him are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Vicente López Portaña, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Gerhard von Kügelgen, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, and Cristóbal Mendoza. Among people deceased in 1864, Luke Howard ranks 42. Before him are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Henryk Dembiński, Nassau William Senior, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Alexandre Calame, and Pedro Santana. After him are Sakuma Shōzan, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Simonas Daukantas, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Simon von Stampfer, and J. E. B. Stuart.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Luke Howard ranks 2,353 out of 7,765. Before him are Brenda Milner (1918), Charles Burney (1726), Kevin McNally (1956), William Playfair (1759), Laurence Doherty (1875), and Ford Madox Ford (1873). After him are Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Ernest Bevin (1881), Burial (2000), Patrick Magee (1922), Stanley Myers (1930), and Ian Bannen (1928).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Luke Howard ranks 53. Before him are Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Alexander William Williamson (1824), John William Draper (1811), Peter Atkins (1940), and William Gregor (1761). After him are William Nicholson (1753), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Walker (1781), Morris Travers (1872), Edward Charles Howard (1774), and Arthur Aikin (1773).

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