ECONOMIST

Ellen Swallow Richards

1842 - 1911

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Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (née Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Swallow Richards has received more than 306,622 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ellen Swallow Richards is the 234th most popular economist (up from 251st in 2019), the 4,253rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,777th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Economist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 234 out of 414. Before her are Thomas Sowell, Albert O. Hirschman, Leopold von Wiese, Harold Innis, Fritz Machlup, and Philip H. Dybvig. After her are Eugen Slutsky, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Roy Harrod, Mahbub ul Haq, and Étienne Laspeyres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 63. Before her are Antonio Fogazzaro, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, Erik Gustaf Boström, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. After her are Stojan Novaković, Heinrich Martin Weber, François Hennebique, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, and Antero de Quental. Among people deceased in 1911, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 51. Before her are Joan Maragall, Dmitry Bogrov, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Fritz von Uhde, Thomas Blake Glover, and Mirza Alakbar Sabir. After her are Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Felix Mottl, Howard Pyle, Nikolay Beketov, and Reinhold Begas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 4,253 out of 20,380. Before her are John Paine (1870), Walter Short (1880), Carl Wilson (1946), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Samuel Little (1940), and Paul Shenar (1936). After her are Jordan Rudess (1956), Beatrice Straight (1914), James Gunn (1966), Eric Carmen (1949), Roy Rogers (1911), and Chris Hardwick (1971).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 80. Before her are William Baumol (1922), Chester Barnard (1886), David D. Friedman (1945), Paul Milgrom (1948), Thomas Sowell (1930), and Philip H. Dybvig (1955). After her are Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), Robert Barro (1944), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Greg Mankiw (1958), Dennis Meadows (1942), and Joshua Angrist (1960).

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