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John E. Walker

1941 - Today

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Sir John Ernest Walker (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John E. Walker has received more than 148,217 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). John E. Walker is the 185th most popular chemist (up from 233rd in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 989th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 61.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John E. Walker ranks 185 out of 602. Before him are Robert W. Holley, Richard F. Heck, Germain Henri Hess, John Cornforth, Stanley Miller, and Paul D. Boyer. After him are F. Sherwood Rowland, Nicolas Leblanc, Robert S. Mulliken, Emil Erlenmeyer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Hennig Brand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, John E. Walker ranks 79. Before him are Cass Elliot, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Linda McCartney, Vladimir Voronin, Mohamed Ghannouchi, and Paul Anka. After him are Tom Conti, Sergio Oliva, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Josip Skoblar, Otis Redding, and Kyu Sakamoto.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John E. Walker ranks 767 out of 8,785. Before him are Margaret of York (1446), John Fowles (1926), Samuel Richardson (1689), Henry Fielding (1707), William Adelin (1103), and Charles Scott Sherrington (1952). After him are Judith of Flanders (844), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Rachel Weisz (1970), Ian McDiarmid (1944), and Clementine Churchill (1885).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John E. Walker ranks 24. Before him are James Dewar (1842), George Porter (1920), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Harry Kroto (1939), Alexander R. Todd (1907), and John Macleod (1876). After him are John Vane (1927), Derek Barton (1918), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), and William Hyde Wollaston (1766).

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