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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 89,248 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Jeffrey Dempster is the 490th most popular physicist, the 199th most popular biography from Canada and the 7th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 490 out of 717. Before him are Jayant Narlikar, Edoardo Amaldi, Boris Podolsky, Richard C. Tolman, Dennis W. Sciama, and Pierre Weiss. After him are Jakob II Bernoulli, Heinz von Foerster, Gunnar Nordström, Vikram Sarabhai, Michael Green, and George Zweig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 150. Before him are Alexander Miasnikian, Max Vasmer, Erich Salomon, Fernand Crommelynck, Grigory Neujmin, and Kurt Schmitt. After him are Chester Conklin, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Peter Freuchen, Florence Lawrence, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, and Roberto María Ortiz. Among people deceased in 1950, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 94. Before him are Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Vasily Gordov, Edward Arthur Milne, Miklós Bánffy, Dimitri Uznadze, and Kurt Schmitt. After him are Edna St. Vincent Millay, Black Elk, Adolf Wiklund, Juan Botasso, Hiroshi Yoshida, and Heinrich Tessenow.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 199 out of 1,350. Before him are Louis Nirenberg (1925), Barry Pepper (1970), Phil Hartman (1948), Harold Innis (1894), Alanis Morissette (1974), and Paul Haggis (1953). After him are Bobby Hull (1939), Jeff Wall (1946), Allan Dwan (1885), Mary Simon (1947), Nathan Fillion (1971), and Ethel Smith (1907).

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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) and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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