1939 - 2016
Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016) was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Kroto has received more than 273,536 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Harry Kroto is the 153rd most popular chemist (down from 123rd in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 674th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Chemist.
Harry Kroto is most famous for discovering a new form of carbon called buckminsterfullerene or "buckyballs."
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Among chemists, Harry Kroto ranks 153 out of 509. Before him are Jerome Karle, Hennig Brand, Ignacy Mościcki, Paul Lauterbur, Stanley Miller, and Paul Flory. After him are George Andrew Olah, John Frederic Daniell, Wilfrid Voynich, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Satoshi Ōmura, and Akira Suzuki.
1918 - 2013
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 147
1630 - 1710
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 148
1867 - 1946
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 149
1929 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 150
1930 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 151
1910 - 1985
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 152
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 153
1927 - 2017
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 154
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 155
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 156
1802 - 1870
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 157
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 158
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 159
Among people born in 1939, Harry Kroto ranks 55. Before him are Ali MacGraw, Scott Glenn, Joel Schumacher, Ratko Janev, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, and Volker Schlöndorff. After him are Silvana Armenulić, Carlo Ginzburg, João Bernardo Vieira, Barry Seal, Fikret Abdić, and Carolina Herrera. Among people deceased in 2016, Harry Kroto ranks 57. Before him are Vera Rubin, Ettore Scola, George Martin, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Michèle Morgan, and Jacques Rivette. After him are Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Viktor Korchnoi, Esma Redžepova, Patricio Aylwin, Vesna Vulović, and Takahito, Prince Mikasa.
1939 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 49
1939 - Present
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 50
1939 - 2020
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 51
1939 - 2019
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 52
1939 - 2022
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 53
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 54
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 55
1939 - 1976
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 56
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 57
1939 - 2009
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 58
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 59
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 60
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 61
1928 - 2016
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 51
1931 - 2016
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 52
1926 - 2016
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 53
1926 - 2016
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 54
1920 - 2016
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 55
1928 - 2016
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 56
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 57
1927 - 2016
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 58
1931 - 2016
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 59
1943 - 2016
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 60
1918 - 2016
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 61
1950 - 2016
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 62
1915 - 2016
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 63
Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Kroto ranks 742 out of 7,765. Before him are Samuel Richardson (1689), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Arthur Cayley (1821), Pat Hitchcock (1928), Frederick Griffith (1879), and Margaret Rutherford (1892). After him are Derek Jacobi (1938), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), and Chris Rea (1951).
1689 - 1761
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 736
1373 - 1418
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 737
1821 - 1895
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 738
1928 - 2021
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 739
1879 - 1941
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 740
1892 - 1972
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 741
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 742
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 743
1940 - 1989
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 744
1443 - 1509
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 745
1430 - 1456
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 746
1814 - 1897
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 747
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 748
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Harry Kroto ranks 17. Before him are Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Robert Robinson (1886), James Dewar (1842), John Macleod (1876), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), and Arthur Harden (1865). After him are John Frederic Daniell (1790), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), John Vane (1927), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), George Porter (1920), and Archer Martin (1910).
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 13
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 14
1897 - 1967
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 15
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 16
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 17
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 18
1914 - 1994
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 19
1927 - 2004
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 20
1917 - 1985
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 21
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 22
1910 - 2002
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 23