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James Crafts

1839 - 1917

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James Mason Crafts (March 8, 1839 – June 20, 1917) was an American chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel–Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Crafts has received more than 71,944 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). James Crafts is the 459th most popular chemist (up from 501st in 2019), the 5,557th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,865th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James Crafts ranks 459 out of 602. Before him are Carl Graebe, Benjamin List, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Walther Kossel, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, and Carl Remigius Fresenius. After him are Maclyn McCarty, Friedrich Accum, Takamine Jōkichi, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Isabella Karle, and Johan Kjeldahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, James Crafts ranks 67. Before him are Luigi Capuana, Friedrich Gernsheim, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Ludwig Anzengruber, Julius Petersen, and Calixto García. After him are Caterina Volpicelli, Jakob Hurt, Nelson A. Miles, Nicolás de Piérola, Aleksandr Stoletov, and Giovanni Battista Scalabrini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Crafts ranks 5,557 out of 20,380. Before him are Cesar Chavez (1927), Ida B. Wells (1862), Glenn Danzig (1955), J. D. Tippit (1924), James Eckhouse (1955), and Clyde Cowan (1919). After him are Theodore Roszak (1933), William R. King (1786), Osceola (1804), Henry Clay Frick (1849), Gary Peacock (1935), and Travis Barker (1975).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, James Crafts ranks 84. Before him are Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Eric Betzig (1960), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), James B. Conant (1893), and Donella Meadows (1941). After him are Maclyn McCarty (1911), Isabella Karle (1921), Michael Behe (1952), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), and Robert Jarvik (1946).

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