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Anna J. Harrison

1912 - 1998

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Anna Jane Harrison (December 23, 1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years. She was the first female president of the American Chemical Society, and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna J. Harrison has received more than 41,697 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Anna J. Harrison is the 559th most popular chemist (down from 527th in 2019), the 9,863rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,276th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Anna J. Harrison ranks 559 out of 602. Before her are Florence B. Seibert, Mildred Cohn, Mary L. Good, Ching Wan Tang, Max Bodenstein, and Bruce Ames. After her are Faiza Al-Kharafi, Mary Engle Pennington, K. C. Nicolaou, Barbara Askins, Henry Roscoe, and Christian Ehrenfried Weigel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Anna J. Harrison ranks 365. Before her are Hermann Hansen, Les Brown, Francisco Cabañas, Georgia Coleman, Ruby Payne-Scott, and Rudolf Stahl. After her are Joseph Van Ingelgem, Jadwiga Wajs, Eva Crane, Wendy Barrie, Eleazar de Carvalho, and Dorothy Brookshaw. Among people deceased in 1998, Anna J. Harrison ranks 284. Before her are Fred Davis, Daniel Massey, Persis Khambatta, Louis Hostin, Charles Sibley, and René Ferrier. After her are Duncan White, Augusto Magli, Elio Morille, Tommy Flowers, James Lighthill, and Hammond Innes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anna J. Harrison ranks 9,863 out of 20,380. Before her are Pamela Bellwood (1951), Harvey Kurtzman (1924), Neal Morse (1960), Anna J. Cooper (1858), Walter Bahr (1927), and Aldo Donelli (1907). After her are Alison Brie (1982), Elihu B. Washburne (1816), Dick Cavett (1936), Sylvia Robinson (1935), Bud Luckey (1934), and Andy Weir (1972).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Anna J. Harrison ranks 99. Before her are Helen Murray Free (1923), Bruce Alberts (1938), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Mildred Cohn (1913), Mary L. Good (1931), and Bruce Ames (1928). After her are Mary Engle Pennington (1872), Barbara Askins (1939), George M. Whitesides (1939), Ira Remsen (1846), Marie Maynard Daly (1921), and Edith M. Flanigen (1929).

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