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William Nicol

1770 - 1851

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William Nicol FRSE FCS (1768? – 2 September 1851) was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Nicol has received more than 10,622 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William Nicol is the 39th most popular geologist (down from 26th in 2019), the 2,876th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,127th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Geologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, William Nicol ranks 39 out of 59. Before him are Adolphe d'Archiac, Édouard Lartet, John Phillips, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Giovanni Arduino, and Barnum Brown. After him are Joachim Barrande, Pentti Eskola, Niles Eldredge, Norman L. Bowen, Julius von Haast, and Henryk Arctowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, William Nicol ranks 34. Before him are Alexandre Brongniart, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, William Clark, and Lucia Migliaccio. After him are William Huskisson, Zaman Shah Durrani, Albrecht Berblinger, James Hogg, and David Thompson. Among people deceased in 1851, William Nicol ranks 38. Before him are Stanko Vraz, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Esteban Echeverría, Ramón Freire, and Andrés Quintana Roo. After him are Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Marie Jules César Savigny, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Giovanni Berchet, and Sylvester Graham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Nicol ranks 2,876 out of 7,765. Before him are Bryan Robson (1957), Ray Clemence (1948), Rupert Graves (1963), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Gwyneth Jones (1936), and Frederick W. Lanchester (1868). After him are Taylor Caldwell (1900), George S. Robertson (1872), Hector Boece (1465), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), and Harry Kane (1993).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, William Nicol ranks 11. Before him are William Smith (1769), Gideon Mantell (1790), William Buckland (1784), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Arthur Holmes (1890), and John Phillips (1800). After him are Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Joseph Thomson (1858), Robert Jameson (1774), Henry De la Beche (1796), and Charles Lapworth (1842).

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