1932 - Today
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, performing crossed molecular beam experiments that enabled a detailed molecular-level understanding of many elementary reaction processes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dudley R. Herschbach has received more than 150,660 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Dudley R. Herschbach is the 296th most popular chemist (up from 345th in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,938th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Chemist.
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Among chemists, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 296 out of 509. Before her are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Rudolph A. Marcus, Leopold Gmelin, Martin Lowry, Aaron Klug, and Ben Feringa. After her are Edward Frankland, M. Stanley Whittingham, Smithson Tennant, Antoine Baumé, Carl Reichenbach, and Akira Yoshino.
1807 - 1867
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 290
1923 - Present
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 291
1788 - 1853
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 292
1874 - 1936
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 293
1926 - 2018
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 294
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 295
1932 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 296
1825 - 1899
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 297
1941 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 298
1761 - 1815
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 299
1728 - 1804
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 300
1788 - 1869
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 301
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 302
Among people born in 1932, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 111. Before her are Nikolai Kardashev, Alan Bean, Christy Brown, Paul Virilio, Delphine Seyrig, and Abdul Halim Khaddam. After her are Amrish Puri, Charly Gaul, Spyros Kyprianou, Manuel Puig, Harry Gregg, and Meir Kahane.
1932 - 2019
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 105
1932 - 2018
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 106
1932 - 1981
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 107
1932 - 2018
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 108
1932 - 1990
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 109
1932 - 2020
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 110
1932 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 111
1932 - 2005
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 112
1932 - 2005
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 113
1932 - 2002
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 114
1932 - 1990
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 115
1932 - 2020
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 116
1932 - 1990
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 117
Among people born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 2,123 out of 18,182. Before her are Saul Bass (1920), Jane Jacobs (1916), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Michael Emerson (1954), Paul Revere (1735), and Roberta Flack (1937). After her are Sojourner Truth (1797), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Jerome Robbins (1918), David Strathairn (1949), George Gallup (1901), and Marc Anthony (1968).
1920 - 1996
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,117
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,118
1963 - 2023
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,119
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,120
1735 - 1818
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,121
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 2,122
1932 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 2,123
1797 - 1883
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 2,124
1854 - 1921
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 2,125
1918 - 1998
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 2,126
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 2,127
1901 - 1984
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 2,128
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 2,129
Among chemists born in United States, Dudley R. Herschbach ranks 59. Before her are Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Martin Rodbell (1925), Richard Smalley (1943), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), and Alexander Shulgin (1925). After her are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Alice Ball (1892), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Frances Arnold (1956), and Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889).
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 53
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 54
1925 - 1998
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 55
1943 - 2005
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 56
1940 - 2018
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 57
1925 - 2014
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 58
1932 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 59
1915 - 1974
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 60
1918 - 2009
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 61
1892 - 1916
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 62
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 63
1956 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 64
1889 - 1944
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 65