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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

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Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf matɨjaˈʂɛfskʲi]; born April 8, 1950) is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made. Matyjaszewski was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 for expanding the capabilities of controlled/living polymerizations and developing ATRP, a robust catalytic process for the radical polymerization of monomers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krzysztof Matyjaszewski has received more than 77,516 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is the 549th most popular chemist (down from 509th in 2019), the 1,169th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,024th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 549 out of 602. Before him are Nikolai Menshutkin, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Jürgen Hennig, Henry Eyring, Frederick G. Donnan, and John Roebuck. After him are Bruce Alberts, Martin Kamen, J. L. B. Smith, Florence B. Seibert, Mildred Cohn, and Mary L. Good.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 511. Before him are Dietmar Danner, Laura Restrepo, Marco Tullio Giordana, Micky Moody, Ramón Quiroga, and Vondie Curtis-Hall. After him are Tadeusz Ślusarski, Luciano Spinosi, Kenneth Marshall, Gary Fisher, Danny Sullivan, and Loris Kessel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 1,169 out of 1,694. Before him are Ewa Lipska (1945), Maksymilian Gierymski (1846), Salomon Bochner (1899), Henryk Iwaniec (1947), Bogumił Kobiela (1931), and Kazimierz Zimny (1935). After him are Kazimierz Brodziński (1791), Heinz Pollay (1908), Paweł Janas (1953), Narcyza Żmichowska (1819), Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950), and Manfred Stolpe (1936).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 26. Before him are Alfred Stock (1876), Heinrich Caro (1834), Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), Sergey Lebedev (1874), and Nikodem Caro (1871).

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