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Stephen Hales

1677 - 1761

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Stephen Hales (17 September 1677 – 4 January 1761) was an English clergyman who made major contributions to a range of scientific fields including botany, pneumatic chemistry and physiology. He was the first person to measure blood pressure. He also invented several devices, including a ventilator, a pneumatic trough and a surgical forceps for the removal of bladder stones. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Hales has received more than 192,426 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Hales is the 308th most popular physicist (down from 290th in 2019), the 1,082nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,024th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Stephen Hales ranks 308 out of 717Before him are William Whewell, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Friedrich Hund, Kenneth G. Wilson, Edmond Becquerel, and Horst Ludwig Störmer. After him are Jean-Charles de Borda, Gerard 't Hooft, John Robert Schrieffer, Leon M. Lederman, Toshihide Maskawa, and Steven Chu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1677, Stephen Hales ranks 5Before him are Li Ching-Yuen, Stanisław Leszczyński, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, and Jacques Cassini. After him are Johann Ludwig Bach, Pietro Grimani, Nicola Fago, Jan Santini Aichel, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Among people deceased in 1761, Stephen Hales ranks 5Before him are Pieter van Musschenbroek, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Thomas Bayes, and Samuel Richardson. After him are Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Tarabai, Thomas Simpson, Clemens August of Bavaria, Tokugawa Ieshige, Pierre Fauchard, and John Dollond.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hales ranks 1,082 out of 7,765Before him are Shirley Bassey (1937), Ricky Gervais (1961), Daniel Radcliffe (1989), Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852), Neil Gaiman (1960), and William Smith (1769). After him are William the Lion (1142), Saint David (512), Stephen Harding (1059), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), and W. T. Stead (1849).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Stephen Hales ranks 41Before him are Joseph Swan (1828), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Freeman Dyson (1923), Peter Mansfield (1933), and William Whewell (1794). After him are John Stewart Bell (1928), James Jeans (1877), William Sturgeon (1783), John Henry Poynting (1852), Duncan Haldane (1951), and William Watson (1715).