CHEMIST

Ida Noddack

1896 - 1978

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Ida Noddack (25 February 1896 – 24 September 1978), née Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband Walter Noddack, and Otto Berg, she discovered element 75, rhenium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ida Noddack has received more than 128,473 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ida Noddack is the 247th most popular chemist (down from 241st in 2019), the 967th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,005th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ida Noddack ranks 247 out of 602. Before her are William Hyde Wollaston, Elias James Corey, Thomas Graham, Ryōji Noyori, William C. Campbell, and Paul Lauterbur. After her are Sidney Altman, Thomas A. Steitz, Joseph L. Goldstein, Bernard Courtois, Walter Gilbert, and Andreas Libavius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Ida Noddack ranks 60. Before her are Léon Theremin, Kenji Miyazawa, Soghomon Tehlirian, David Wechsler, Elsa Triolet, and Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse. After her are Kazimierz Kuratowski, Norodom Suramarit, Jimmy Doolittle, Otto Hofmann, Aleksei Antonov, and Julien Duvivier. Among people deceased in 1978, Ida Noddack ranks 45. Before her are Charles Boyer, Giovanni Gronchi, Roger Caillois, W. Eugene Smith, Guo Moruo, and Hannah Höch. After her are Keith Moon, Harvey Milk, Georgi Markov, Ignazio Silone, Wadie Haddad, and Henry Corbin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ida Noddack ranks 967 out of 8,785. Before her are Terry Jones (1942), Alan Moore (1953), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Natasha Richardson (1963), Thomas Chatterton (1752), and Thomas Lawrence (1769). After her are Alma Reville (1899), John Boyd Orr (1880), James Jeans (1877), Matthew Lewis (1775), Victoria Beckham (1974), and P. G. Wodehouse (1881).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Ida Noddack ranks 32. Before her are Derek Barton (1918), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), and Thomas Graham (1805). After her are Michael Smith (1932), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), William Henry Perkin (1838), William Henry (1774), John Pople (1925), and Smithson Tennant (1761).

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