CHEMIST

Albert Ghiorso

1915 - 2010

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Albert Ghiorso (July 15, 1915 – December 26, 2010) was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Ghiorso has received more than 145,892 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Albert Ghiorso is the 390th most popular chemist (down from 354th in 2019), the 3,678th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,170th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Chemist.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

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  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Albert Ghiorso ranks 390 out of 602. Before him are Jan Czochralski, Thomas Andrews, Allen J. Bard, Asima Chatterjee, Hugo Schiff, and Mathieu Orfila. After him are Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Moungi Bawendi, Ferdinand Reich, George Washington Carver, and Coenraad Johannes van Houten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Albert Ghiorso ranks 113. Before him are Paul Castellano, John Profumo, Herma Bauma, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Edmond O'Brien, and Willie Dixon. After him are Takeshi Kamo, Maxime Rodinson, Nam Il, Sergio Bertoni, Robert Motherwell, and Henry Kuttner. Among people deceased in 2010, Albert Ghiorso ranks 145. Before him are Abraham Sutzkever, Leonid Kizim, Bogdan Bogdanović, Girija Prasad Koirala, Sinan Hasani, and Cesare Siepi. After him are Roberto Rosato, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Fud Leclerc, Rudolf Barshai, and Steingrímur Hermannsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Albert Ghiorso ranks 3,678 out of 20,380. Before him are La Monte Young (1935), Lucius D. Clay (1898), Richard Anderson (1926), Horace Silver (1928), Robert Zoellick (1953), and Christopher Meloni (1961). After him are David Koch (1940), Linda Darnell (1923), Tony Robbins (1960), Ron McGovney (1962), Heather Graham (1970), and Richard Bright (1937).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Albert Ghiorso ranks 73. Before him are Louis E. Brus (1943), Frances Arnold (1956), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), and Allen J. Bard (1933). After him are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), George Washington Carver (1864), Jennifer Doudna (1964), John Tukey (1915), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), and Eric Betzig (1960).

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