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Archer Martin

1910 - 2002

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Archer John Porter Martin (1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002) was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archer Martin has received more than 89,489 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Archer Martin is the 116th most popular chemist (up from 197th in 2019), the 516th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 883rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Chemist.

Archer Martin is most famous for his work with James Watt and Harold A. Wilson in the development of the gas mask.

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  • 64.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 18.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Archer Martin ranks 116 out of 602. Before him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Akira Suzuki, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, and Harold Urey. After him are Vincent du Vigneaud, Gerhard Ertl, Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, and Georg Wittig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Archer Martin ranks 26. Before him are Ronald Coase, Dominique Pire, David Niven, Lee Byung-chul, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Helenio Herrera. After him are Nathuram Godse, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Michel Aflaq, Samuel Barber, Kurt Meyer, and Jean Anouilh. Among people deceased in 2002, Archer Martin ranks 28. Before him are Edsger W. Dijkstra, Fritz Walter, Abu Nidal, Alexander Prokhorov, Camilo José Cela, and Nándor Hidegkuti. After him are Robert Nozick, Jonas Savimbi, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Rod Steiger, James Tobin, and George Porter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archer Martin ranks 516 out of 8,785. Before him are Douglas Adams (1952), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), William Wilberforce (1759), Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), and Ælla of Northumbria (800). After him are Peter Gabriel (1950), Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), Raymond Cattell (1905), Mike Oldfield (1953), John Hicks (1904), and Richard Griffiths (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Archer Martin ranks 15. Before him are William Crookes (1832), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Robert Robinson (1886), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914). After him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), John Newlands (1837), James Dewar (1842), George Porter (1920), John Frederic Daniell (1790), and Harry Kroto (1939).

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