1858 - 1916
William Stanley Jr. (November 28, 1858 – May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. During his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Stanley Jr. has received more than 97,205 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Stanley Jr. is the 480th most popular physicist (up from 488th in 2019), the 4,014th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,925th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, William Stanley Jr. ranks 480 out of 717. Before him are Vilhelm Bjerknes, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, John Leslie, Anatoly Alexandrov, Konstantin Novoselov, and Maurice Karnaugh. After him are Pierre Victor Auger, Otto Lehmann, Ernest Marsden, Jayant Narlikar, Edoardo Amaldi, and Boris Podolsky.
1862 - 1951
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 474
1715 - 1794
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 475
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 476
1903 - 1994
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 477
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 478
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 479
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 480
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 481
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 482
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 483
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 484
1908 - 1989
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 485
1896 - 1966
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 486
Among people born in 1858, William Stanley Jr. ranks 80. Before him are Oldfield Thomas, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Emma Calvé, Wilhelm Fliess, Richard Bergh, and Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães. After him are Cipriano Castro, Georgi Todorov, Eduard von Toll, Agnes Baden-Powell, Oskar Minkowski, and José Miguel Gómez. Among people deceased in 1916, William Stanley Jr. ranks 85. Before him are Ferdinand Fellner, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Hugo von Pohl, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and Cai E. After him are Mário de Sá-Carneiro, James Guillaume, Janis Rozentāls, Jane Dieulafoy, Eduard Nápravník, and Adolph Frank.
1858 - 1929
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 74
1858 - 1954
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 75
1858 - 1942
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 76
1858 - 1928
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 77
1858 - 1919
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 78
1858 - 1946
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 79
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 80
1858 - 1924
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 81
1858 - 1934
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 82
1858 - 1902
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 83
1858 - 1945
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 84
1858 - 1931
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 85
1858 - 1921
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 86
1847 - 1916
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 79
1859 - 1916
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 80
1855 - 1916
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 81
1855 - 1916
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 82
1822 - 1916
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 83
1882 - 1916
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 84
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 85
1890 - 1916
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 86
1844 - 1916
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 87
1866 - 1916
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 88
1851 - 1916
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 89
1839 - 1916
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 90
1834 - 1916
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 91
Among people born in United States, William Stanley Jr. ranks 4,014 out of 18,182. Before him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Sid Haig (1939), Carmine Appice (1946), Brian Keith (1921), Mike Love (1941), and David Graeber (1961). After him are Anne Francis (1930), Michael Nouri (1945), Lenny Bruce (1925), Bud Abbott (1897), Larry Wall (1954), and Amadeo Giannini (1870).
1824 - 1896
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 4,008
1939 - 2019
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 4,009
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 4,010
1921 - 1997
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 4,011
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 4,012
1961 - 2020
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 4,013
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,014
1930 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,015
1945 - Present
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,016
1925 - 1966
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 4,017
1897 - 1974
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,018
1954 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,019
1870 - 1949
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 4,020
Among physicists born in United States, William Stanley Jr. ranks 96. Before him are Alan Guth (1947), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), and Maurice Karnaugh (1924). After him are Richard C. Tolman (1881), John G. Trump (1907), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert H. Dicke (1916), and Clarence Zener (1905).
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 90
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 92
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 93
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 94
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 95
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 96
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 97
1907 - 1985
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 98
1898 - 1973
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 99
1930 - 2017
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 100
1916 - 1997
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 101
1905 - 1993
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 102