1877 - 1956
Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. In 1921 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Soddy has received more than 287,251 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Soddy is the 42nd most popular chemist (down from 36th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 5th most popular British Chemist.
Frederick Soddy is most famous for his discovery of isotopes and his work on the periodic table.
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Among chemists, Frederick Soddy ranks 42 out of 509. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont, Carl Bosch, Walther Nernst, Gertrude B. Elion, Henrik Dam, and Ilya Prigogine. After him are Victor Grignard, Theodor Svedberg, William Crookes, Gerty Cori, Paul Karrer, and Joseph Black.
1580 - 1644
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 36
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 37
1864 - 1941
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 38
1918 - 1999
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 39
1895 - 1976
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 40
1917 - 2003
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 41
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 42
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 43
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 44
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 45
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 46
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 47
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 48
Among people born in 1877, Frederick Soddy ranks 6. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, Hjalmar Schacht, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Wilhelm Frick. After him are Francis William Aston, Joan Gamper, Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, Louis Renault, and Edgar Cayce. Among people deceased in 1956, Frederick Soddy ranks 9. Before him are B. R. Ambedkar, Jackson Pollock, Konstantin von Neurath, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Pietro Badoglio, and Jules Rimet. After him are Robert Walser, Emil Nolde, Lucien Febvre, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, A. A. Milne, and Alexander Rodchenko.
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 1
1877 - 1927
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 2
1877 - 1970
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 3
1877 - 1926
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 4
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 5
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 8
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 9
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 10
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 11
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 12
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 3
1912 - 1956
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 4
1873 - 1956
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 5
1876 - 1956
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 6
1871 - 1956
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 7
1873 - 1956
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 8
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 9
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 10
1867 - 1956
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 11
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 12
1870 - 1956
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 13
1882 - 1956
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 14
1891 - 1956
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Soddy ranks 320 out of 7,765. Before him are Benny Hill (1924), Stanley Matthews (1915), Thomas Andrews (1873), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), John Herschel (1792), and Anne Neville (1456). After him are Syd Barrett (1946), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Jon Lord (1941), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), George Eliot (1819), and G. K. Chesterton (1874).
1924 - 1992
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 314
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 315
1873 - 1912
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 316
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 317
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 318
1456 - 1485
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 319
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 320
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 321
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 322
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 323
837 - 871
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 324
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 325
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 326
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Soddy ranks 5. Before him are John Dalton (1766), Humphry Davy (1778), William Ramsay (1852), and Frederick Sanger (1918). After him are William Crookes (1832), Francis William Aston (1877), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Norman Haworth (1883), John Newlands (1837), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), and Robert Robinson (1886).
1766 - 1844
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 1
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 2
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 3
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 8
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 9
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 10
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12