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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

1897 - 1967

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Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood has received more than 116,770 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Cyril Norman Hinshelwood is the 113th most popular chemist (up from 121st in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 585th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Chemist.

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British chemist and Nobel Prize winner. He is most famous for his work in the field of chemical kinetics.

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Over the past year Cyril Norman Hinshelwood has had the most page views in the with 11,074 views, followed by Chinese (3,074), and Russian (2,475). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (245.05%), Malagasy (105.32%), and Ido (78.57%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ranks 113 out of 602. Before him are Richard R. Ernst, Fritz Strassmann, Per Teodor Cleve, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Akira Suzuki, and Fritz Albert Lipmann. After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Harold Urey, Archer Martin, Vincent du Vigneaud, Gerhard Ertl, and Ernst Otto Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ranks 33. Before him are Enid Blyton, Paul Delvaux, Kurt Daluege, Karl Gebhardt, Ivan Bagramyan, and Otto Strasser. After him are Hasso von Manteuffel, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Georg Wittig, Karl-Otto Koch, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and Patrick Blackett. Among people deceased in 1967, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ranks 26. Before him are Ilya Ehrenburg, Johannes Itten, Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, Richard Kuhn, and Wolfgang Köhler. After him are Françoise Dorléac, Shigeru Yoshida, Norman Angell, Hermann Joseph Muller, Brian Epstein, and Robert van Gulik.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ranks 504 out of 8,785. Before him are James IV of Scotland (1473), John Couch Adams (1819), Patrick Stewart (1940), Ian McEwan (1948), William Stanley Jevons (1835), and Gordon Brown (1951). After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Jim Clark (1936), Henry the Young King (1155), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), Gary Moore (1952), and Douglas Adams (1952).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ranks 13. Before him are Norman Haworth (1883), Francis William Aston (1877), William Crookes (1832), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), and Robert Robinson (1886). After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Archer Martin (1910), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), John Newlands (1837), James Dewar (1842), and George Porter (1920).

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