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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. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition.Richards graduated from Westford Academy (second oldest secondary school in Massachusetts) in 1862. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Swallow Richards has received more than 289,829 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ellen Swallow Richards is the 253rd most popular economist (down from 214th in 2019), the 4,789th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,033rd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 253 out of 315Before her are Olivier Blanchard, Tony Atkinson, Leo Huberman, Kenichi Ohmae, David Card, and Leszek Balcerowicz. After her are Wesley Clair Mitchell, Paul Sweezy, Grigory Yavlinsky, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Herman Daly, and Philippe Van Parijs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 66Before her are Heinrich Martin Weber, Wilhelm Jordan, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq. After her are Pyotr Durnovo, Erik Gustaf Boström, Antonio Fogazzaro, Berthold Delbrück, Christian Lundeberg, and Teoberto Maler. Among people deceased in 1911, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 54Before her are Konrad Duden, Ivan Grohar, Nikolay Beketov, Thomas Blake Glover, Gustaf Fröding, and Florentino Ameghino. After her are Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Carl Fredrik Hill, Quanah Parker, Alphonse Legros, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Antonio Fogazzaro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 4,789 out of 18,182Before her are Norma Talmadge (1894), Charles Brockden Brown (1771), Leo Frank (1884), Lee Falk (1911), Saul Zaentz (1921), and Frank James (1843). After her are Matthew Lillard (1970), Sean S. Cunningham (1941), Anne Revere (1903), Joel McCrea (1905), Grant Show (1962), and Gilbert Stuart (1755).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 83Before her are George Shultz (1920), Eric Maskin (1950), Greg Mankiw (1958), John R. Commons (1862), Edward Chamberlin (1899), and Leo Huberman (1903). After her are Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Paul Sweezy (1910), Arthur Laffer (1940), Gordon Tullock (1922), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), and Max O. Lorenz (1876).