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William Prout

1785 - 1850

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William Prout FRS (; 15 January 1785 – 9 April 1850) was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Prout has received more than 111,831 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. William Prout is the 313th most popular chemist (up from 314th in 2019), the 1,348th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,514th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Chemist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Prout ranks 313 out of 602. Before him are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Yuan T. Lee, Thomas Cech, Alexander Shulgin, J. D. Bernal, and Alice Ball. After him are Torbern Bergman, Frederick Abel, William E. Moerner, Edward Frankland, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Clemens Winkler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, William Prout ranks 19. Before him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Diponegoro, and Carl Adolph Agardh. After him are Isabella Colbran, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Friedrich Wieck, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Charles Xavier Thomas, and Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Among people deceased in 1850, William Prout ranks 25. Before him are Józef Bem, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Adam Oehlenschläger, William Sturgeon, Vincent Pallotti, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este. After him are Johann Gottfried Schadow, John C. Calhoun, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, and Carl Sigismund Kunth.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Prout ranks 1,348 out of 8,785. Before him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Anne Perry (1938), Roger Fenton (1819), Edmund Kean (1787), George Atwood (1745), and Edward Waring (1736). After him are Peter Burke (1937), Gideon Mantell (1790), Ted Hughes (1930), Lennox Lewis (1965), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), and Joseph Paxton (1803).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Prout ranks 40. Before him are Peter D. Mitchell (1920), William Henry Perkin (1838), William Henry (1774), John Pople (1925), Smithson Tennant (1761), and Martin Lowry (1874). After him are Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Fraser Stoddart (1942), and Charles Macintosh (1766).

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