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Arthur Jeffrey Dempster

1886 - 1950

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Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (August 14, 1886 – March 11, 1950) was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery in 1935 of the uranium isotope 235U. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Jeffrey Dempster has received more than 95,216 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Arthur Jeffrey Dempster is the 486th most popular physicist (up from 490th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 199th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 486 out of 851. Before him are Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Yuri Orlov, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Smoluchowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and G. M. B. Dobson. After him are John Leslie, Martin Knudsen, Ivan Puluj, Maurice Karnaugh, Johann Heinrich Schulze, and Gordon Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 138. Before him are Paul Lévy, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Max Vasmer, Rash Behari Bose, Delmira Agustini, and Robert Hennet. After him are Al Jolson, Edgar Rubin, Ty Cobb, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Chester Barnard, and Kurt Hahn. Among people deceased in 1950, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 84. Before him are Kazys Grinius, Edgar Lee Masters, Kurt Schmitt, Yi Kwang-su, Nikolai Luzin, and Juan Botasso. After him are Al Jolson, Raymond Sommer, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edwin Sutherland, and Santiago Casares Quiroga.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 173 out of 1,622. Before him are Henry Czerny (1959), James Doohan (1920), Emily Carr (1871), Napoleon Sarony (1821), Alfred Aho (1941), and Nelly Furtado (1978). After him are Ian Hacking (1936), Anne Carson (1950), Viola Desmond (1914), Elisha Cuthbert (1982), Stana Katic (1978), and Alanis Morissette (1974).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 7. Before him are Willard Boyle (1924), Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Jim Peebles (1935), Donna Strickland (1959), and Louis Slotin (1910). After him are Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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