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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 155,369 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Henry Taube is the 346th most popular chemist (down from 227th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Canada (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henry Taube ranks 346 out of 509Before him are Charles Hatchett, William E. Moerner, George Sarton, Karl Ernst Claus, Charles Friedel, and Thomas Cech. After him are Jacques Bergier, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Roy J. Plunkett, and Auguste Laurent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Henry Taube ranks 95Before him are John Vorster, Richard Hamming, Lorne Greene, Piet de Jong, Tapio Wirkkala, and Horst Sindermann. After him are Ibolya Csák, Albert Ghiorso, Artur London, Evgeny Lifshitz, André Frossard, and Marais Viljoen. Among people deceased in 2005, Henry Taube ranks 98Before him are Eddie Guerrero, George Mikan, Frits Philips, Johnny Carson, Edward Bunker, and Amrita Pritam. After him are Teresa Wright, Vasco Gonçalves, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Kocheril R. Narayanan, John Mills, and Andre Gunder Frank.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Henry Taube ranks 145 out of 1,350Before him are Eric McCormack (1963), Shawn Mendes (1998), Lorne Greene (1915), Katheryn Winnick (1977), Jordan Peterson (1962), and Sid Meier (1954). After him are Eugene Levy (1946), Joe Shuster (1914), Deanna Durbin (1921), Raymond Burr (1917), Marie Dressler (1868), and Arthur Hiller (1923).

Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, Henry Taube ranks 4Before him are William Giauque (1895), Sidney Altman (1939), and Rudolph A. Marcus (1923). After him are Maud Menten (1879).