CHEMIST

Fraser Stoddart

1942 - Today

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Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a British-American chemist who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fraser Stoddart has received more than 336,691 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Fraser Stoddart is the 333rd most popular chemist (down from 274th in 2019), the 1,537th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,188th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Fraser Stoddarts by language

Over the past year Fraser Stoddart has had the most page views in the with 27,550 views, followed by Chinese (5,432), and German (2,694). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (142.25%), Serbian (85.96%), and Southern Azerbaijani (83.33%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fraser Stoddart ranks 333 out of 602. Before him are Victor Goldschmidt, François-Marie Raoult, Jean Stas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Édouard Herzen, and Thomas C. Südhof. After him are Otto Wichterle, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Fraser Stoddart ranks 184. Before him are Billy Connolly, Jusuf Kalla, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Milton Nascimento, Ann Dunham, and Richard Roundtree. After him are Mike Markkula, Susan Sullivan, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Edward Luttwak, Fradique de Menezes, and Daliah Lavi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 1,537 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Delius (1862), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), Christopher Isherwood (1904), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Robert Maynard (1684), and Greg Lake (1947). After him are Olaf Stapledon (1886), Ian Kershaw (1943), Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Anne Conway (1631), Jack W. Szostak (1952), and Karen Armstrong (1944).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Fraser Stoddart ranks 45. Before him are Martin Lowry (1874), William Prout (1785), Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), and Richard J. Roberts (1943). After him are Charles Macintosh (1766), Charles Hatchett (1765), Alexander William Williamson (1824), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), and Luke Howard (1772).

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