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Herbert C. Brown

1912 - 2004

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Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert C. Brown has received more than 180,820 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Herbert C. Brown is the 224th most popular chemist (up from 243rd in 2019), the 971st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,085th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Chemist.

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  • 180k

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  • 59.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Herbert C. Brown ranks 224 out of 509. Before him are Jacques Dubochet, Leo Baekeland, Michael Smith, Arieh Warshel, John Pople, and Alfred G. Gilman. After him are Franz Karl Achard, John Cornforth, Charles J. Pedersen, Friedrich Sertürner, William Lipscomb, and Nikolay Semyonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Herbert C. Brown ranks 67. Before him are Salvador Luria, José Ferrer, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Hermann Graf, Duško Popov, and Lev Gumilyov. After him are Pat Nixon, Julia Child, Ivan Yakubovsky, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Abbé Pierre, and Marina Raskova. Among people deceased in 2004, Herbert C. Brown ranks 45. Before him are Andriyan Nikolayev, Edward B. Lewis, Theo van Gogh, Arthur Hailey, Norberto Bobbio, and John Pople. After him are Julia Child, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Otto Kumm, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Elmer Bernstein, and Fanny Blankers-Koen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert C. Brown ranks 971 out of 7,765. Before him are John Pople (1925), Edward Kelley (1555), Harold Lowe (1882), John Dunstaple (1390), Slash (1965), and Ian Curtis (1956). After him are James Anderson (1680), Denholm Elliott (1922), Flinders Petrie (1853), Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), and Clive Sinclair (1940).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Herbert C. Brown ranks 31. Before him are William Henry Perkin (1838), Alexander R. Todd (1907), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Derek Barton (1918), Michael Smith (1932), and John Pople (1925). After him are William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John E. Walker (1941), Ida Noddack (1896), Thomas Graham (1805), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), and Fraser Stoddart (1942).

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