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Peter Mark Roget

1779 - 1869

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Peter Mark Roget (UK: US: ; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Mark Roget has received more than 235,696 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Peter Mark Roget is the 719th most popular physicist (down from 652nd in 2019), the 4,240th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,787th in 2019) and the 77th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Mark Roget ranks 719 out of 851. Before him are Juris Upatnieks, Raymond Gosling, Tom Kibble, Brandon Carter, Lisa Randall, and Arthur Wightman. After him are Mark Oliphant, Pief Panofsky, Roald Sagdeev, Nikolay Umov, John Joly, and Howard P. Robertson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Peter Mark Roget ranks 35. Before him are Johann Schweigger, Tabitha Babbitt, Washington Allston, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Stephen Decatur, and Joel Roberts Poinsett. After him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Zebulon Pike, Benjamin Silliman, Joseph Story, and Samuel D. Ingham. Among people deceased in 1869, Peter Mark Roget ranks 57. Before him are Andreas Kalvos, Bertalan Szemere, Alexander Dreyschock, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Thomas Hodgskin, and José Hilario López. After him are Diomidis Kyriakos, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Robert J. Walker, Charles Sturt, Michael Sars, and John Bell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 4,240 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Kinnear (1934), Allen Jones (1937), Jimmy Jones (1928), Clive Swift (1936), John Loder (1898), and Robin Hill (1899). After him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), John Morley (1838), Elisabeth Sladen (1946), Mick Avory (1944), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), and Richard Overy (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 77. Before him are C. V. Boys (1855), John Hopkinson (1849), John Polkinghorne (1930), Alfred Ewing (1855), Raymond Gosling (1926), and Brandon Carter (1942). After him are Julian Barbour (1937), John Aitken (1839), Alan Cottrell (1919), Bernard Lovell (1913), Gilbert Walker (1868), and Balfour Stewart (1828).

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