1785 - 1850
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 101,537 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). William Prout is the 314th most popular chemist (down from 302nd in 2019), the 1,519th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,363rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Chemist.
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Among chemists, William Prout ranks 314 out of 509. Before him are Viktor Meyer, Charles Macintosh, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Richard R. Schrock, Victor Goldschmidt, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac. After him are Frances Arnold, François-Marie Raoult, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Sendivogius, and Clemens Winkler.
1848 - 1897
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 308
1766 - 1843
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 309
1755 - 1809
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 310
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 311
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 312
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 313
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 314
1956 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 315
1830 - 1901
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 316
1806 - 1879
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 317
1740 - 1825
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 318
1566 - 1636
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 319
1838 - 1904
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 320
Among people born in 1785, William Prout ranks 22. Before him are Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Diponegoro, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Lady Caroline Lamb, Prince Paul of Württemberg, and Friedrich Wieck. After him are Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Isabella Colbran, Charles Xavier Thomas, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, José Miguel Carrera, and Edward Bransfield. Among people deceased in 1850, William Prout ranks 26. Before him are Józef Bem, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, William Sturgeon, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Johann Gottfried Schadow. After him are Wilhelm Beer, Gustav Schwab, John C. Calhoun, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Margaret Fuller, and Lorenzo Bartolini.
1785 - 1831
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 16
1785 - 1855
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 17
1785 - 1846
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 18
1785 - 1828
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 19
1785 - 1852
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 20
1785 - 1873
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 21
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 22
1785 - 1864
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 23
1785 - 1845
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 24
1785 - 1870
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 25
1785 - 1809
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 26
1785 - 1821
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 27
1785 - 1852
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 28
1794 - 1850
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 20
1781 - 1850
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 21
1774 - 1850
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 22
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 23
1779 - 1850
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 24
1764 - 1850
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 25
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 26
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 27
1792 - 1850
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 28
1782 - 1850
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 29
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 30
1810 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 31
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 32
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Prout ranks 1,519 out of 7,765. Before him are Billy Connolly (1942), Constantine II of Scotland (801), Jasper Tudor (1431), Alison Steadman (1946), Roger Hodgson (1950), and Joan Hickson (1906). After him are Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), David Hemmings (1941), E. P. Thompson (1924), James Faulkner (1948), Robert Stephenson (1803), and Jim Carter (1948).
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 1,513
801 - 952
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 1,514
1431 - 1495
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 1,515
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 1,516
1950 - Present
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 1,517
1906 - 1998
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 1,518
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 1,519
1836 - 1908
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 1,520
1941 - 2003
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 1,521
1924 - 1993
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 1,522
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 1,523
1803 - 1859
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 1,524
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 1,525
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Prout ranks 45. Before him are Richard J. Roberts (1943), Martin Lowry (1874), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Smithson Tennant (1761), and Charles Macintosh (1766). After him are Charles Hatchett (1765), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Alexander William Williamson (1824), John William Draper (1811), and Peter Atkins (1940).
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 39
1874 - 1936
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 40
1825 - 1899
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 41
1941 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 42
1761 - 1815
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 43
1766 - 1843
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 44
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 45
1765 - 1847
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 46
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 47
1813 - 1885
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 48
1824 - 1904
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 49
1811 - 1882
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 50
1940 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 51