SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Karen Silkwood

1946 - 1974

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Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility. She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma, making plutonium pellets, and became the first woman on the union's negotiating team. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission about her concerns, she was found to have plutonium contamination on her body and in her home. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Silkwood has received more than 1,462,445 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karen Silkwood is the 543rd most popular social activist (down from 482nd in 2019), the 8,149th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,535th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Karen Silkwoods by language

Over the past year Karen Silkwood has had the most page views in the with 205,265 views, followed by Japanese (9,654), and German (7,773). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (198.74%), Japanese (84.27%), and Egyptian Arabic (80.27%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Karen Silkwood ranks 543 out of 840. Before her are Ernestine Rose, John Peters Humphrey, Xiomara Acevedo, Szeto Wah, Abraham Flexner, and Aminatou Haidar. After her are Joseph Weydemeyer, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Oswaldo Payá, Henry Spira, Stephen Mallory, and Roger Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Karen Silkwood ranks 583. Before her are Bruce Buck, Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, Francesco Montenegro, Priit Pärn, Hannes Swoboda, and Julius Sang. After her are Daniel Carnevali, Naveen Patnaik, Ivan Rybkin, Vladimir Martynov, Ramsey Campbell, and Elisabeth Sladen. Among people deceased in 1974, Karen Silkwood ranks 210. Before her are Jaime Torres Bodet, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Marieluise Fleißer, José Vidal, Cornelius Lanczos, and Luis Marín. After her are Sergey Urusevsky, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Gaston Mercier, Mamerto Urriolagoitía, Clive Brook, and Vlasta Děkanová.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Karen Silkwood ranks 8,149 out of 20,380. Before her are Cliff Edwards (1895), Mike Farrell (1939), Robert M. La Follette (1855), Faith Domergue (1924), Blossom Rock (1895), and Ken Howard (1944). After her are Lewis Wilson (1920), Jake Roberts (1955), Edward Henry Potthast (1857), Jill Stein (1950), Jason Kidd (1973), and Roger Clemens (1962).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Karen Silkwood ranks 76. Before her are Jerry Rubin (1938), Lucy Parsons (1853), Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), Ruby Bridges (1954), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), and Abraham Flexner (1866). After her are Roger Stone (1952), Bill Haywood (1869), Mamie Till (1921), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Dolores Huerta (1930), and Sam Childers (1963).

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