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The Most Famous

CHEMISTS from Jordan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Jordanian Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 509 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Jordan. This makes Jordan the birth place of the 46th most number of Chemists behind Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jordanian Chemists of all time. This list of famous Jordanian Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Omar M. Yaghi (1965 - )

With an HPI of 38.51, Omar M. Yaghi is the most famous Jordanian Chemist.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Omar M. Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مونّس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences as well as the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chemists born between 1965 and 1965. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chemists include Omar M. Yaghi.

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