Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand physicist (1871–1937). This person is the 2778^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 794^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ernest Rutherford” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6078^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3267^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 794^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9971^st most popular in all topics.

The 3523^rd most popular in AI.

The 2778^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6074^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4794^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ernest Rutherford” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4794^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ernest Rutherford”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3267^th place) and edited by 4173 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3523^rd place).

Ernest Rutherford is on the 794^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2778^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 171 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14492 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #142 in December 2017
• Global: #198 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #50 in October 2012
• Global: #767 in September 2017

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Ernest Rutherford		84.416
2	Esperanto (eo) Ernest Rutherford		84.2042
3	Slovenian (sl) Ernest Rutherford		80.9452
4	Finnish (fi) Ernest Rutherford		64.8123
5	Bulgarian (bg) Ърнест Ръдърфорд		61.0867
6	Ukrainian (uk) Ернест Резерфорд		58.1498
7	Armenian (hy) Էռնեստ Ռեզերֆորդ		55.2007
8	German (de) Ernest Rutherford		54.9817
9	Tamil (ta) எர்ணஸ்ட் ரதர்ஃபோர்டு		54.2613
10	Vietnamese (vi) Ernest Rutherford		53.0374

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ernest Rutherford		10 717 449
2	Spanish (es) Ernest Rutherford		6 365 125
3	Portuguese (pt) Ernest Rutherford		1 344 491
4	Russian (ru) Резерфорд, Эрнест		1 282 150
5	German (de) Ernest Rutherford		1 169 215
6	French (fr) Ernest Rutherford		952 045
7	Turkish (tr) Ernest Rutherford		465 428
8	Italian (it) Ernest Rutherford		448 457
9	Polish (pl) Ernest Rutherford		406 822
10	Japanese (ja) アーネスト・ラザフォード		377 506

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ernest Rutherford		28 272
2	Spanish (es) Ernest Rutherford		7 145
3	Russian (ru) Резерфорд, Эрнест		3 207
4	German (de) Ernest Rutherford		2 456
5	Chinese (zh) 欧内斯特·卢瑟福		2 317
6	Japanese (ja) アーネスト・ラザフォード		2 100
7	Portuguese (pt) Ernest Rutherford		2 087
8	Italian (it) Ernest Rutherford		1 307
9	French (fr) Ernest Rutherford		1 234
10	Persian (fa) ارنست رادرفورد		1 202

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ernest Rutherford		1 091
2	German (de) Ernest Rutherford		320
3	Spanish (es) Ernest Rutherford		233
4	French (fr) Ernest Rutherford		224
5	Russian (ru) Резерфорд, Эрнест		146
6	Italian (it) Ernest Rutherford		137
7	Dutch (nl) Ernest Rutherford		112
8	Portuguese (pt) Ernest Rutherford		112
9	Chinese (zh) 欧内斯特·卢瑟福		90
10	Persian (fa) ارنست رادرفورد		87

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Резерфорд, Эрнест		2
2	Slovenian (sl) Ernest Rutherford		2
3	Czech (cs) Ernest Rutherford		1
4	English (en) Ernest Rutherford		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Ernest Rutherford		1
6	Hebrew (he) ארנסט רתרפורד		1
7	Georgian (ka) ერნესტ რეზერფორდი		1
8	Simple English (simple) Ernest Rutherford		1
9	Slovak (sk) Ernest Rutherford		1
10	Turkish (tr) Ernest Rutherford		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information