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Richard Leach Maddox

1816 - 1902

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Richard Leach Maddox (4 August 1816 – 11 May 1902) was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin negative dry plates for photography in 1871. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Leach Maddox has received more than 74,797 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Leach Maddox is the 573rd most popular physician (down from 506th in 2019), the 3,511th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,212th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Richard Leach Maddox ranks 573 out of 726Before him are Jean Cruveilhier, Jacinto Convit, Paul Hermann, Joseph Schröter, Metrodora, and Florence R. Sabin. After him are John Arbuthnot, Hélène Sparrow, Napoleon Cybulski, Emil Holub, William Beaumont, and Madeleine Pelletier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Richard Leach Maddox ranks 46Before him are August Wilhelm Ambros, Stephen Allen Benson, Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Grace Aguilar, Dimitrie Ghica, and C. A. Rosetti. After him are Andrei Mureșanu, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Lajos Haynald, Morrison Waite, and Filippo Parlatore. Among people deceased in 1902, Richard Leach Maddox ranks 69Before him are Dmitry Sipyagin, Gleb Uspensky, Clémence Royer, John Houlding, Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar, and Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Johannes Wislicenus, Emil Holub, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Frank Norris, Walter Reed, and Almon Brown Strowger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Leach Maddox ranks 3,511 out of 8,785Before him are George Cohen (1939), Dave Holland (1946), Liz Smith (1921), Dougray Scott (1965), Angus Macfadyen (1963), and Wyndham Halswelle (1882). After him are Mick Jones (1944), Natalia Tena (1984), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Osbert Salvin (1835), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), and Norman Smith (1923).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Richard Leach Maddox ranks 49Before him are Ernest Starling (1866), Robert Knox (1791), Anthony Carlisle (1768), Frederick Twort (1877), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), and Thomas Francis Wade (1818). After him are John Arbuthnot (1667), William Stukeley (1687), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Astley Cooper (1768), and Emily Blackwell (1826).