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James Dewar

1842 - 1923

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Sir James Dewar ( DEW-ər; 20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than 25 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Dewar has received more than 375,677 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). James Dewar is the 145th most popular chemist (down from 112th in 2019), the 645th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 564th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James Dewar ranks 145 out of 602. Before him are Kurt Wüthrich, Willard Libby, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Sune Bergström, John Newlands, and Christian B. Anfinsen. After him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Arthur Kornberg, Ahmed Zewail, Edmond H. Fischer, and Julius Axelrod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, James Dewar ranks 20. Before him are Okita Sōji, Hermann Cohen, Arrigo Boito, Georg Brandes, Vasily Vereshchagin, and Giovanni Giolitti. After him are Ambrose Bierce, Sophus Lie, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, and Édouard Lucas. Among people deceased in 1923, James Dewar ranks 19. Before him are Pierre Loti, Dietrich Eckart, Julius Martov, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and Katherine Mansfield. After him are George Hendrik Breitner, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Princess Louise of Prussia, Edward Emerson Barnard, Milena Vukotić, and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Dewar ranks 645 out of 8,785. Before him are Rudolf Abel (1903), W. H. Auden (1907), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Hargreaves (1720), Philippa of England (1394), and James Paul Moody (1887). After him are George Martin (1926), John Kendrew (1917), Bobby Robson (1933), John Flamsteed (1646), Kevin Keegan (1951), and Brian Eno (1948).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, James Dewar ranks 18. Before him are Robert Robinson (1886), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Archer Martin (1910), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), and John Newlands (1837). After him are George Porter (1920), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Harry Kroto (1939), Alexander R. Todd (1907), John Macleod (1876), and John E. Walker (1941).

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