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F. Albert Cotton

1930 - 2007

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Frank Albert Cotton FRS (April 9, 1930 – February 20, 2007) was an American chemist. He was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He authored over 1600 scientific articles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. Albert Cotton has received more than 137,736 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). F. Albert Cotton is the 522nd most popular chemist (down from 497th in 2019), the 9,716th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,777th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Chemist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, F. Albert Cotton ranks 522 out of 509Before him are Mildred Cohn, Jürgen Hennig, Sabir Yunusov, Bruce Ames, Hugo Erdmann, and Yellapragada Subbarow. After him are Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Mary L. Good, Gilbert Stork, Darleane C. Hoffman, John George Children, and Anna J. Harrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, F. Albert Cotton ranks 489Before him are Albert S. Ruddy, John Cullum, Don Meineke, Mike Sparken, Catherine Hardy Lavender, and Nikolai Puchkov. After him are Bertha Brouwer, Lionel Cox, Geeta Dutt, Dolores Huerta, Booker Ervin, and Petar Šegvić. Among people deceased in 2007, F. Albert Cotton ranks 325Before him are Brad Delp, Hans Sturm, Dusty Anderson, Teresa Brewer, Roger Beaufrand, and Mehmed Uzun. After him are David Halberstam, Sidney Coleman, Kevin DuBrow, Tamás Gábor, Dan Fogelberg, and Yolanda King.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, F. Albert Cotton ranks 9,716 out of 18,182Before him are Siobhan Fallon Hogan (1961), Brian Benben (1956), Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Spark Matsunaga (1916), Pete George (1929), and Olive Borden (1906). After him are Anna Deavere Smith (1950), Tom Paxton (1937), Norman Fell (1924), Ted Sorensen (1928), Ralph Lewis (1872), and Lesley Ashburner (1883).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, F. Albert Cotton ranks 93Before him are James Crafts (1839), Allen J. Bard (1933), Barbara Askins (1939), Robert Jarvik (1946), Mildred Cohn (1913), and Bruce Ames (1928). After him are Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), Mary L. Good (1931), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Anna J. Harrison (1912), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), and Wallace Smith Broecker (1931).