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Elda Emma Anderson

1899 - 1961

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Elda Emma Anderson (October 5, 1899 – April 17, 1961) was an American physicist and health researcher. During World War II, she worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she became professor of physics at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1929. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elda Emma Anderson has received more than 43,038 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Elda Emma Anderson is the 699th most popular physicist, the 7,696th most popular biography from United States and the 149th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 699 out of 851Before her are Yvette Cauchois, Leonid Sedov, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Humberto Fernández-Morán, E. C. George Sudarshan, and Alvin M. Weinberg. After her are Helen Quinn, Gregor Wentzel, Stuart Hameroff, Marcia Neugebauer, Aleksandr Andronov, and Vilho Väisälä.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 255Before her are George O'Brien, Martin Luther King Sr., George Călinescu, Mikhail Gromov, Bart McGhee, and Giorgi Leonidze. After her are Elisabeth Langgässer, Jack Beresford, Donald Johnston, Wolfgang Krull, Maria Wittek, and Jan Lechoń. Among people deceased in 1961, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 156Before her are Alberto Galateo, Maud Wagner, Victor d'Arcy, Ernest Payne, Eliseo Mouriño, and George Irving. After her are William Alexander Morgan, Hanns Seidel, Géza von Bolváry, Jean Piot, Louis Rwagasore, and Zoltan Korda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 7,696 out of 20,380Before her are Ben Bova (1932), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Howard Valentine (1881), Metacomet (1639), Michael K. Williams (1966), and Hal David (1921). After her are Charles Darrow (1889), Nils Lofgren (1951), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), James Darren (1936), Big Van Vader (1955), and Noah Hathaway (1971).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Elda Emma Anderson ranks 149Before her are Frederick Seitz (1911), Edith Clarke (1883), Robert R. Wilson (1914), Leona Woods (1919), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), and Alvin M. Weinberg (1915). After her are Stuart Hameroff (1947), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Albert W. Hull (1880), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), and Bill Nye (1955).