CHEMIST

Edwin McMillan

1907 - 1991

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Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg. A graduate of California Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1933, and joined the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory where he discovered oxygen-15 and beryllium-10. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin McMillan has received more than 211,779 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Edwin McMillan is the 19th most popular chemist (up from 23rd in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from United States (up from 218th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Chemist.

Edwin McMillan was most famous for the discovery of the first transuranium element, neptunium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Edwin McMillan ranks 19 out of 602. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and Linus Pauling. After him are Friedrich Wöhler, Paul Karrer, William Ramsay, Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner, and Albert Hofmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Edwin McMillan ranks 7. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Astrid Lindgren, Claus von Stauffenberg, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, and John Wayne. After him are Mircea Eliade, J. Hans D. Jensen, Alberto Moravia, Laurence Olivier, Hergé, and Yakov Dzhugashvili. Among people deceased in 1991, Edwin McMillan ranks 7. Before him are Freddie Mercury, Olav V of Norway, Dr. Seuss, Vasily Zaitsev, Yves Montand, and Serge Gainsbourg. After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl David Anderson, Klaus Kinski, Jiang Qing, Klaus Barbie, and John Bardeen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin McMillan ranks 183 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Bradbury (1920), Clark Gable (1901), Robert K. Merton (1910), Geronimo (1829), Gene Cernan (1934), and Tim Cook (1960). After him are Jane Fonda (1937), Sigourney Weaver (1949), Robert Redford (1936), James Madison (1751), Gregory Peck (1916), and Scatman John (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Edwin McMillan ranks 2. Before him are Linus Pauling (1901). After him are John Howard Northrop (1891), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Melvin Calvin (1911), Irving Langmuir (1881), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Theodore William Richards (1868), James B. Sumner (1887), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927).

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