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Edward W. Morley

1838 - 1923

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Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American scientist known for his precise and accurate measurement of the atomic weight of oxygen, and for the Michelson–Morley experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward W. Morley has received more than 121,223 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Edward W. Morley is the 262nd most popular chemist (down from 243rd in 2019), the 1,633rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,573rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Edward W. Morley ranks 262 out of 602. Before him are Arieh Warshel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Emil Abderhalden, Michael Smith, Feodor Lynen, and Richard Smalley. After him are Kaoru Ishikawa, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Martin Karplus, Locusta, Joachim Sauer, and Edwin G. Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Edward W. Morley ranks 26. Before him are Camille Jordan, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Konstanty Kalinowski, Marià Fortuny, and 11th Dalai Lama. After him are Cleveland Abbe, Vladimir Markovnikov, William Henry Perkin, Arthur Auwers, Fredrik Idestam, and Jean-Paul Laurens. Among people deceased in 1923, Edward W. Morley ranks 32. Before him are Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Max Nordau, Raymond Radiguet, Ernst Troeltsch, Édouard Stephan, and Maurice Barrès. After him are Edith Södergran, Théophile Steinlen, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Bonar Law, Georg Luger, and Charles Dupuy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward W. Morley ranks 1,633 out of 20,380. Before him are John Sturges (1910), George C. Scott (1927), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), Harvey Milk (1930), Luke Perry (1966), and Maria Shriver (1955). After him are Ethel Barrymore (1879), Mary Anderson (1862), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Jackie Coogan (1914), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), and Eddie Cochran (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Edward W. Morley ranks 56. Before him are Paul Lauterbur (1929), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Walter Gilbert (1932), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), and Richard Smalley (1943). After him are Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Martin Rodbell (1925), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Richard R. Schrock (1945), and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915).

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