CHEMIST

Helen Murray Free

1923 - 2021

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Helen Murray Free (February 20, 1923 – May 1, 2021) was an American chemist and educator. She is most known for revolutionizing many in vitro self-testing systems for diabetes and other diseases while working at Miles Laboratories. The tests are still marketed today with blood tests as Ascensia Diabetes Care, and urine tests under Siemens Healthineers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Murray Free has received more than 130,636 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Murray Free is the 542nd most popular chemist (down from 489th in 2019), the 8,818th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,281st in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Chemist.

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  • 45.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Helen Murray Free ranks 542 out of 602. Before her are Aleksandr Arbuzov, Darleane C. Hoffman, Nikodem Caro, Carl Jacob Löwig, Ida Freund, and Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg. After her are Nikolai Menshutkin, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Jürgen Hennig, Henry Eyring, Frederick G. Donnan, and John Roebuck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Helen Murray Free ranks 398. Before her are Cyril M. Kornbluth, Walter Jens, Wim van der Voort, Lee Yuan-tsu, James E. Gunn, and Akkineni Nageswara Rao. After her are Paavo Lonkila, Ruth Williams Khama, Avram Davidson, Robert Sabatier, Aleksandr Alov, and Dolores Fuller. Among people deceased in 2021, Helen Murray Free ranks 506. Before her are Al Unser, Cyril Mango, José Manuel Caballero, Svante Thuresson, Chris Craft, and Robert Bly. After her are Ernie Lively, Pedro Casado, Leonid Bartenyev, Paola Pigni, Zlatko Saračević, and Gerry Ashmore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Murray Free ranks 8,818 out of 20,380. Before her are Herman Groman (1882), Peter Berg (1962), Dave Farrell (1977), Elle Fanning (1998), Robert Bly (1926), and Elizabeth Ashley (1939). After her are Norman Bel Geddes (1893), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Laura La Plante (1904), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack McGee (1949), and John Ashcroft (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Helen Murray Free ranks 93. Before her are Michael Behe (1952), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), Robert Jarvik (1946), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), and Darleane C. Hoffman (1926). After her are Bruce Alberts (1938), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Mildred Cohn (1913), Mary L. Good (1931), Bruce Ames (1928), and Anna J. Harrison (1912).

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