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Derek Barton

1918 - 1998

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Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Derek Barton has received more than 135,971 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Derek Barton is the 220th most popular chemist (down from 213th in 2019), the 885th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 933rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 60.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Derek Barton ranks 220 out of 602. Before him are Antoni Grabowski, Alan J. Heeger, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Donald J. Cram, Stephanie Kwolek, and Franz Karl Achard. After him are Aaron Klug, Rodney Robert Porter, Alfred G. Gilman, William Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown, and Jacques Dubochet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Derek Barton ranks 61. Before him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Rosemary Kennedy, Anna Mani, François Tombalbaye, E. Howard Hunt, and Lila Kedrova. After him are Sam Walton, Henryk Szeryng, W. Eugene Smith, Gabriel Axel, Kakuei Tanaka, and Edwin G. Krebs. Among people deceased in 1998, Derek Barton ranks 34. Before him are George H. Hitchings, André Weil, Lúcio Costa, Kenichi Fukui, Galina Ulanova, and Bob Kane. After him are Nelson Goodman, Florence Griffith Joyner, Martha Gellhorn, Conrad Schumann, Alan J. Pakula, and Alan Hodgkin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Derek Barton ranks 885 out of 8,785. Before him are Wentworth Miller (1972), Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484), Keith Emerson (1944), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), and Olave Baden-Powell (1889). After him are Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Mick Taylor (1949), Samuel Butler (1612), Rob Halford (1951), and Charles Lightoller (1874).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Derek Barton ranks 26. Before him are John Frederic Daniell (1790), Harry Kroto (1939), Alexander R. Todd (1907), John Macleod (1876), John E. Walker (1941), and John Vane (1927). After him are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), Thomas Graham (1805), and Ida Noddack (1896).

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