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BIOLOGIST

Clair Cameron Patterson

1922 - 1995

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Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clair Cameron Patterson has received more than 960,663 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Clair Cameron Patterson is the 266th most popular biologist (down from 184th in 2019), the 2,782nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,861st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 266 out of 841. Before him are Eduard Rüppell, Wilder Penfield, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, René Lesson, and Stephan Endlicher. After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, June Almeida, Fritz Müller, Alain Bombard, Erich von Tschermak, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 146. Before him are Kingsley Amis, Bernardin Gantin, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Albert Lamorisse, Eileen Essell, and Alexander Zinoviev. After him are Gerda Steinhoff, Margherita Hack, John Edward Williams, Anatoli Papanov, Anker Jørgensen, and Stanley Schachter. Among people deceased in 1995, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 93. Before him are Kingsley Amis, Arturo Frondizi, J. Presper Eckert, Ida Lupino, Ann Dunham, and Leila Mourad. After him are Alexander Godunov, Gabriel Urgebadze, Viveca Lindfors, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Václav Neumann, and Sylvester Stadler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 2,782 out of 18,182. Before him are Daniel Boone (1734), Suzanne Collins (1962), James Remar (1953), Heather Locklear (1961), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), and Susan Wojcicki (1968). After him are Machine Gun Kelly (1990), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Jack Johnson (1878), Dan Quayle (1947), Darlene Hard (1936), and Gerry Mulligan (1927).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 53. Before him are H. Robert Horvitz (1947), Craig Venter (1946), James Dwight Dana (1813), Martin Chalfie (1947), David Julius (1955), and Wilder Penfield (1891). After him are Carol W. Greider (1961), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), James Rothman (1950), and Eric F. Wieschaus (1947).

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