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PHYSICIST

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 219,627 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Peter Mark Roget is the 652nd most popular physicist (down from 598th in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,255th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Peter Mark Roget ranks 652 out of 717Before him are Nikolay Umov, Tom Kibble, Bruno Zumino, Shoichi Sakata, Leona Woods, and Aleksandr Andronov. After him are Lisa Randall, Gregory Breit, Hedwig Kohn, John Aitken, George F. R. Ellis, and Valentine Telegdi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Peter Mark Roget ranks 33Before him are Tabitha Babbitt, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Washington Allston, Louis de Freycinet, and Joel Roberts Poinsett. After him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Stephen Decatur, Zebulon Pike, Joseph Story, and Samuel D. Ingham. Among people deceased in 1869, Peter Mark Roget ranks 49Before him are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, George Peabody, Alexander Dreyschock, Mary Ward, Pyotr Anjou, and Edwin Stanton. After him are Henry Jarvis Raymond, Michael Sars, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Diomidis Kyriakos, Thomas Hodgskin, and Charles Sturt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 3,795 out of 7,765Before him are Timothy West (1934), Steven Moffat (1961), Sadie Frost (1965), George Holyoake (1817), Cadwallon ap Cadfan (591), and Tom Hooper (1972). After him are Ernest Payne (1884), Howard Marks (1945), Phil Neville (1977), Clara Reeve (1729), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), and Beatrice Tinsley (1941).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 75Before him are John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Polkinghorne (1930), John Hopkinson (1849), and Alfred Ewing (1855). After him are John Aitken (1839), Brandon Carter (1942), Julian Barbour (1937), Bernard Lovell (1913), Ronald Drever (1931), and John Pendry (1943).