CHEMIST

George Washington Carver

1864 - 1943

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George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington Carver has received more than 7,865,877 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). George Washington Carver is the 395th most popular chemist (down from 359th in 2019), the 3,847th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,350th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 6.52

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, George Washington Carver ranks 395 out of 602. Before him are Mathieu Orfila, Albert Ghiorso, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Moungi Bawendi, and Ferdinand Reich. After him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Luke Howard, Albert Niemann, Constantin Fahlberg, and Agnes Pockels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, George Washington Carver ranks 93. Before him are Adolf Wölfli, Toktogul Satylganov, Ricarda Huch, Tsuda Umeko, Alexander Dutov, and Nathan Birnbaum. After him are Banjo Paterson, Maud Watson, Léon Gaumont, José Gregorio Hernández, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Futabatei Shimei. Among people deceased in 1943, George Washington Carver ranks 116. Before him are Ludwig von Reuter, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Aleš Hrdlička, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Aliagha Shikhlinski, and Ernst Trygger. After him are Winnaretta Singer, Yury Tynyanov, Walther von Hünersdorff, René de Saussure, Hristo Lukov, and Erich Bey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Washington Carver ranks 3,847 out of 20,380. Before him are William Cranch Bond (1789), Frank Zamboni (1901), Dusty Rhodes (1945), Jeff Fahey (1952), Brian Thompson (1959), and Robert Rodriguez (1968). After him are Dave Grohl (1969), William Devane (1939), George McGovern (1922), Ron Rifkin (1939), Rosario Dawson (1979), and John Amos (1939).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, George Washington Carver ranks 75. Before him are Roger Y. Tsien (1952), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Allen J. Bard (1933), Albert Ghiorso (1915), and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847). After him are Jennifer Doudna (1964), John Tukey (1915), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Eric Betzig (1960), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), and Myrtle Bachelder (1908).

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