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Henry Taube

1915 - 2005

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Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Taube has received more than 164,934 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Henry Taube is the 282nd most popular chemist (up from 346th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Canada (up from 145th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henry Taube ranks 282 out of 602. Before him are William Henry, Kamala Sohonie, Akira Yoshino, Robert H. Grubbs, Georg Brandt, and Carl Auer von Welsbach. After him are Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Thomas Midgley Jr., Rasmus Bartholin, John Pople, and John Polanyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Henry Taube ranks 59. Before him are Helmut Schön, Miroslav Filipović, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Branko Ćopić, and Santiago Carrillo. After him are Abba Eban, Gyula Zsengellér, Alan Watts, W. Arthur Lewis, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., and Konstantin Simonov. Among people deceased in 2005, Henry Taube ranks 64. Before him are Carlo Maria Giulini, Arman, Aenne Burda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Moog, and John Garang. After him are Maurice Trintignant, Narriman Sadek, Amrish Puri, Charly Gaul, Dana Elcar, and Clemente Domínguez y Gómez.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Henry Taube ranks 81 out of 1,622. Before him are David H. Hubel (1926), Conrad Bain (1923), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Donna Strickland (1959), and Denis Villeneuve (1967). After him are Bonar Law (1858), Shannon Tweed (1957), Avril Lavigne (1984), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), John Charles Fields (1863), and Victor Garber (1949).

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Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, Henry Taube ranks 3. Before him are William Giauque (1895), and Sidney Altman (1939). After him are Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Maud Menten (1879), and Martin Kamen (1913).

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