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William John Macquorn Rankine

1820 - 1872

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William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William John Macquorn Rankine has received more than 205,118 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). William John Macquorn Rankine is the 44th most popular engineer (up from 47th in 2019), the 739th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 854th in 2019) and the most popular British Engineer.

William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish engineer who is most famous for his work in thermodynamics. He is credited with the invention of the Rankine scale.

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Among engineers, William John Macquorn Rankine ranks 44 out of 389. Before him are Ildefons Cerdà, Ernst Heinkel, Howard H. Aiken, Anthony Fokker, Sergey Ilyushin, and Marcello Gandini. After him are Moshe Arens, Vannevar Bush, Lu Ban, John Ambrose Fleming, Arthur Scherbius, and Godfrey Hounsfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, William John Macquorn Rankine ranks 15. Before him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Multatuli, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Božena Němcová, and Henri Vieuxtemps. After him are Lewis A. Swift, Mathilde Bonaparte, Edmond Becquerel, Heungseon Daewongun, Yaqub Beg, and John Tyndall. Among people deceased in 1872, William John Macquorn Rankine ranks 12. Before him are Théophile Gautier, Benito Juárez, Franz Grillparzer, N. F. S. Grundtvig, William Webb Ellis, and Stanisław Moniuszko. After him are Ljudevit Gaj, Aleksis Kivi, Immanuel Nobel, Zeng Guofan, Mary Somerville, and Kawakami Gensai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William John Macquorn Rankine ranks 739 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander R. Todd (1907), James Mill (1773), Ronald Fisher (1890), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), Thomas Mun (1571), and H. H. Asquith (1852). After him are Percy Fawcett (1867), Tom Jones (1940), Alfred Molina (1953), J. L. Austin (1911), Arthur Cayley (1821), and John Macleod (1876).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, William John Macquorn Rankine ranks 1. After him are John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Charles George Gordon (1833), Colin Chapman (1928), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Henry Royce (1863), Charles Rolls (1877), Alexander Cunningham (1814), George Cayley (1773), Hertha Ayrton (1854), and Adrian Newey (1958).

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