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John Fenn

1917 - 2010

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John Bennett Fenn (June 15, 1917 – December 10, 2010) was an American professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. Fenn shared half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry. The other half of the 2002 award went to Kurt Wüthrich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Fenn has received more than 5,747 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). John Fenn is the 199th most popular chemist (down from 185th in 2019), the 1,335th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,331st in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Chemist.

John Fenn is most famous for his discovery of the Fenn Treasure, which he found in 1982.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Fenn ranks 199 out of 509. Before him are Otto Wichterle, Johann Deisenhofer, F. Sherwood Rowland, Michael Levitt, Archer Martin, and Johann Josef Loschmidt. After him are Robert H. Grubbs, William Standish Knowles, Peter D. Mitchell, Robert Curl, Giulio Natta, and Ascanio Sobrero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, John Fenn ranks 58. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter, Dinu Lipatti, Leonora Carrington, David McClelland, Manolete, and Masahiko Kimura. After him are William Standish Knowles, Susan Hayward, Jane Wyman, Pál Maléter, Tove Ditlevsen, and Henry Ford II. Among people deceased in 2010, John Fenn ranks 42. Before him are Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Alice Miller, Joan Sutherland, Harry Mulisch, John Forsythe, and Maria Kaczyńska. After him are Vladimir Arnold, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Anton Geesink, Bekim Fehmiu, Stjepan Bobek, and Arthur Penn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Fenn ranks 1,335 out of 18,182. Before him are Marilyn Manson (1969), Bette Midler (1945), Roberts Blossom (1924), Ray Liotta (1954), Dick Fosbury (1947), and Red Cloud (1822). After him are Sam Raimi (1959), Ron Howard (1954), Holland Taylor (1943), Sondra Locke (1944), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), and Edward B. Lewis (1918).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, John Fenn ranks 40. Before him are Arthur Kornberg (1918), Walter Gilbert (1932), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Julius Axelrod (1912), and F. Sherwood Rowland (1927). After him are Robert H. Grubbs (1942), William Standish Knowles (1917), Robert Curl (1933), Elias James Corey (1928), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), and William Lipscomb (1919).

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