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Christopher Kelk Ingold

1893 - 1970

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Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (28 October 1893 – 8 December 1970) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. He also was a co-author of the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Kelk Ingold has received more than 77,037 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Christopher Kelk Ingold is the 506th most popular chemist (down from 465th in 2019), the 3,651st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,329th in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 506 out of 602. Before him are Jacob Volhard, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Adolph Frank, Ivan Horbachevsky, Julius Wilbrand, and Karol Olszewski. After him are Gustav Rose, Johannes Thiele, Nina Andreyeva, Michael Behe, Alexander Nesmeyanov, and Claudine Picardet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 217. Before him are Liang Shuming, Alexander Ostrowski, Arthur Benjamin, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Fernando Altimani, and Platon Oyunsky. After him are Charles Delporte, Joseph Alzin, Ivor Novello, Ichikawa Fusae, Robert Harron, and Toti Dal Monte. Among people deceased in 1970, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 198. Before him are Hélène Sparrow, Ludovico Bidoglio, Vano Muradeli, István Fekete, Shoichi Sakata, and David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven. After him are Valerio Arri, Cyril Scott, Andrejs Upīts, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ernst Krebs, and Slim Harpo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 3,651 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Allam (1953), Raymond Leppard (1927), Peter Cook (1936), Hector Boece (1465), John Derbyshire (1878), and Ralph Cudworth (1617). After him are Sam Riley (1980), Adolph Deutsch (1897), Arthur Roche (1950), Gabrielle Anwar (1970), Kris Marshall (1973), and Swithun (800).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 65. Before him are William Nicholson (1753), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Charles Blagden (1748), David MacMillan (1968), William Hallowes Miller (1801), and Edward Charles Howard (1774). After him are Robin Hill (1899), Leslie Orgel (1927), Neil Bartlett (1932), John Mayow (1640), John Roebuck (1718), and Henry Roscoe (1833).

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