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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 72,025 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Christopher Kelk Ingold is the 466th most popular chemist (down from 442nd in 2019), the 3,337th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,086th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 466 out of 509. Before him are Robert Havemann, Adolph Strecker, Caleb Bradham, Hans Goldschmidt, Theodor Curtius, and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt. After him are Jan Szczepanik, James B. Conant, Heinrich Rose, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Masatoshi Shima, and John Mayow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 191. Before him are Ivor Novello, Oskari Friman, Chang Taek-sang, Arthur Benjamin, Ramón Encinas, and Norman Bel Geddes. After him are Jimmy Durante, James B. Conant, Enrique Peñaranda, Robert Harron, Nurul Amin, and Cornelius Lanczos. Among people deceased in 1970, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 179. Before him are Jaipal Singh Munda, Iuliu Hossu, István Fekete, Hélène Sparrow, Alice Hamilton, and Dora Boothby. After him are Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Vano Muradeli, Andrejs Upīts, John O'Hara, István Kozma, and Fritz von Unruh.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 3,337 out of 7,765. Before him are Peter Bonetti (1941), Conleth Hill (1964), Charles Shaughnessy (1955), Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745), Matthew Goode (1978), and Pete Ham (1947). After him are Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), Johnny Claes (1916), Ian Abercrombie (1934), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), James Arthur (1988), and Steve McQueen (1969).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 64. Before him are Edward Charles Howard (1774), Arthur Aikin (1773), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Frederick Abel (1827), Robin Hill (1899), and William Hallowes Miller (1801). After him are John Mayow (1640), Neil Bartlett (1932), David MacMillan (1968), Charles Blagden (1748), John George Children (1777), and Martyn Poliakoff (1947).

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