CHEMIST

Charles J. Pedersen

1904 - 1989

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Charles John Pedersen (Japanese: 安井 良男, Yasui Yoshio, October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Often associated with Reed McNeil Izatt, Pedersen also shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn. He is the only Nobel Prize laureate born in Korea other than Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung.Pedersen made countless other discoveries in chemistry, such as discovering and developing metal deactivators. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles J. Pedersen has received more than 153,399 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Charles J. Pedersen is the 233rd most popular chemist (down from 227th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from South Korea (down from 66th in 2019) and the most popular South Korean Chemist.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.53

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Over the past year Charles J. Pedersen has had the most page views in the with 16,710 views, followed by Japanese (5,886), and Chinese (3,723). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (261.50%), Scottish Gaelic (36.52%), and Ukrainian (33.18%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles J. Pedersen ranks 233 out of 602. Before him are Hartmut Michel, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, S. P. L. Sørensen, Hideki Shirakawa, Leo Baekeland, and Luis Federico Leloir. After him are Robert Bruce Merrifield, Roger D. Kornberg, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Johan August Arfwedson, Henri Victor Regnault, and Geoffrey Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Charles J. Pedersen ranks 53. Before him are Karl Rahner, Nikolai Kuznetsov, John Gielgud, Gerhard Herzberg, George Balanchine, and František Plánička. After him are Serge Lifar, Donald O. Hebb, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Moshé Feldenkrais, Josef Bühler, and Peter Lorre. Among people deceased in 1989, Charles J. Pedersen ranks 53. Before him are Antonia Brico, John Payne, Gaetano Scirea, Guy Williams, Ahmadou Ahidjo, and Valentin Glushko. After him are Kazimierz Deyna, Rashid Behbudov, Carlos Arias Navarro, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Irving Stone, and Hamani Diori.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Charles J. Pedersen ranks 71 out of 1,128. Before him are Cha Bum-kun (1953), Kim Jae-gyu (1926), Queen Cheorin (1837), Queen Munjeong (1501), Ri Chun-hee (1943), and Toyo Ito (1941). After him are Yi Hwang (1501), Lee Kun-hee (1942), Jeong Mong-ju (1337), Heo Jun (1546), Yi I (1536), and Han Duck-soo (1949).

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Among CHEMISTS In South Korea

Among chemists born in South Korea, Charles J. Pedersen ranks 1. 

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