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Eunice Newton Foote

1819 - 1888

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Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to confirm that certain gases warm when exposed to sunlight, and that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the Greenhouse effect. Born in Connecticut, Foote was raised in New York at the center of social and political movements of her day, such as the abolition of slavery, anti-alcohol activism, and women's rights. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eunice Newton Foote has received more than 613,378 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eunice Newton Foote is the 198th most popular inventor (up from 253rd in 2019), the 2,893rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,932nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 198 out of 426. Before her are Orban, Christopher Latham Sholes, Charles Xavier Thomas, David Edward Hughes, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Oskar Barnack. After her are Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Henry Maudslay, and Narcís Monturiol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 46. Before her are Alfred Escher, Estanislao Figueras, Gustave de Molinari, Tirimüjgan Kadın, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, and Christopher Latham Sholes. After her are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Narcís Monturiol, Clément Juglar, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, and Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Among people deceased in 1888, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 45. Before her are Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, Philip Sheridan, Auguste Maquet, Matthew Arnold, Gustave Boulanger, and Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. After her are Jean-Delphin Alard, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Raffi, Joseph Dietzgen, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Princess Marie of Prussia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 2,893 out of 20,380. Before her are Archibald Gracie IV (1858), Randy Rhoads (1956), Robert B. Wilson (1937), Coleman Hawkins (1904), Joe Rosenthal (1911), and Kevin Peter Hall (1955). After her are Robert Walker (1918), Tito Puente (1923), Laurie Holden (1969), August Derleth (1909), Carl Brashear (1931), and Henry Hill (1943).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 48. Before her are Philo Farnsworth (1906), Charles Martin Hall (1863), Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878). After her are Raymond Damadian (1936), Melvil Dewey (1851), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Robert Metcalfe (1946), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), and Walter Hunt (1796).

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