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William Edward Ayrton

1847 - 1908

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William Edward Ayrton, FRS (14 September 1847 – 8 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Edward Ayrton is the 512th most popular physicist, the 2,341st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 55th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Edward Ayrton ranks 512 out of 851. Before him are Gene Amdahl, Giovanni Poleni, Gustave Trouvé, Andrei Linde, Theodore Hall, and Anatoly Alexandrov. After him are Lester Germer, Alan Sokal, John Henry Schwarz, Heinrich Barkhausen, Andreas von Ettingshausen, and Max Wien.

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Among people born in 1847, William Edward Ayrton ranks 59. Before him are Pavel Yablochkov, Hiệp Hòa, Remus von Woyrsch, Oscar Swahn, Bertha Wegmann, and Alexander Lodygin. After him are Kálmán Mikszáth, Karl Wittgenstein, Émile Faguet, Domenico Ferrata, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, and Richard Bowdler Sharpe. Among people deceased in 1908, William Edward Ayrton ranks 60. Before him are Giovanni Fattori, Abraham Goldfaden, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Valtazar Bogišić, and Edward MacDowell. After him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Jacob W. Davis, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Heinrich Hübschmann, Friedrich von Esmarch, and Friedrich Paulsen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Edward Ayrton ranks 2,341 out of 8,785. Before him are John Walker (1781), Robert Stevenson (1905), Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735), Brenda Milner (1918), Hilary Mantel (1952), and George Buchanan (1506). After him are Sharon Osbourne (1952), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Harold Abrahams (1899), Richard Swinburne (1934), Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893), and Arnold Bennett (1867).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Edward Ayrton ranks 55. Before him are William Watson (1715), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Kerr (1824), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), and William Robert Grove (1811). After him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), Paul Davies (1946), Joseph Larmor (1857), and James David Forbes (1809).

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