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Robert Hooke

1635 - 1703

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Robert Hooke (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Hooke has received more than 4,569,224 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Robert Hooke is the 14th most popular physicist (down from 9th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 31st in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Physicist.

Robert Hooke was an English scientist who is most famous for his discovery of the law of elasticity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Hooke ranks 14 out of 851. Before him are Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Ørsted, Pierre Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and James Prescott Joule. After him are J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, Evangelista Torricelli, Henri Becquerel, Enrico Fermi, and André-Marie Ampère.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1635, Robert Hooke ranks 1. After him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Henry Morgan, François l'Olonnais, Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johann Joachim Becher, Philipp Spener, Zanabazar, Philippe Quinault, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, and Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1703, Robert Hooke ranks 1. After him are Charles Perrault, Mustafa II, Man in the Iron Mask, John Wallis, Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, Samuel Pepys, Ilona Zrínyi, Erik Dahlbergh, Phetracha, and Nicolas de Grigny.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Hooke ranks 36 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne Boleyn (1501), Alexander Fleming (1881), James Cook (1728), James Prescott Joule (1818), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), and Jane Austen (1775). After him are David Hume (1711), Mary I of England (1516), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), John Lennon (1940), and John Major (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Robert Hooke ranks 5. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), Stephen Hawking (1942), Michael Faraday (1791), and James Prescott Joule (1818). After him are James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Paul Dirac (1902), J. J. Thomson (1856), William Gilbert (1544), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Thomas Young (1773), and James Chadwick (1891).

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