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William Sturgeon

1783 - 1850

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William Sturgeon (22 May 1783 – 4 December 1850) was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first practical electric motor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Sturgeon has received more than 170,362 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Sturgeon is the 353rd most popular physicist (down from 349th in 2019), the 1,402nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,365th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 170k

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  • 56.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Sturgeon ranks 353 out of 717. Before him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, and Hans Kramers. After him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Walter H. Schottky, Robert B. Laughlin, Abram Ioffe, and Oskar Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, William Sturgeon ranks 19. Before him are Catharina of Württemberg, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, François Magendie, and Roustam Raza. After him are Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Cheung Po Tsai, Julius Klaproth, Nadezhda Durova, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, and Charles-Louis Havas. Among people deceased in 1850, William Sturgeon ranks 23. Before him are José Gervasio Artigas, Vincent Pallotti, Nikolaus Lenau, Józef Bem, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. After him are Adam Oehlenschläger, Johann Gottfried Schadow, William Prout, Wilhelm Beer, Gustav Schwab, and John C. Calhoun.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Sturgeon ranks 1,402 out of 7,765. Before him are Joseph Boxhall (1884), Rupert Everett (1959), Tom Courtenay (1937), Gemma Jones (1942), Ken Russell (1927), and Peter Mayhew (1944). After him are Stevie Young (1956), Aphra Behn (1640), Simon Stock (1164), Anne Perry (1938), Hugh Lofting (1886), and Patrick Head (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Sturgeon ranks 44. Before him are Freeman Dyson (1923), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), Stephen Hales (1677), John Stewart Bell (1928), and James Jeans (1877). After him are John Henry Poynting (1852), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Watson (1715), John Kerr (1824), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and John Dollond (1706).

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