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Martin Lowry

1874 - 1936

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Thomas Martin Lowry (; 26 October 1874 – 2 November 1936) was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Lowry has received more than 78,234 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Martin Lowry is the 302nd most popular chemist (down from 293rd in 2019), the 1,249th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,296th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Lowry ranks 302 out of 602Before him are Anselme Payen, Smithson Tennant, Michael Levitt, Antoine Baumé, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., and Tapputi. After him are Leopold Gmelin, Kristian Birkeland, Rudolph A. Marcus, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, and Yuan T. Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Martin Lowry ranks 59Before him are Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Thomas J. Watson, André-Louis Debierne, Franz Schmidt, and Isaac Carasso. After him are Emilie Louise Flöge, Carl Schlechter, Reginald Johnston, Wu Peifu, Johannes Schober, and Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. Among people deceased in 1936, Martin Lowry ranks 63Before him are Max Schreck, Basil Zaharoff, Gyula Gömbös, Mikhail Tomsky, Takahashi Korekiyo, and Mehmet Akif Ersoy. After him are Irving Thalberg, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Henri de Régnier, Edward Bach, Charles Curtis, and Richard Hauptmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Lowry ranks 1,249 out of 8,785Before him are Jack Bruce (1943), Glenn Tipton (1947), Frank Lampard (1978), Alan Shearer (1970), Michael Scot (1175), and Thomas Reid (1710). After him are Mike Hailwood (1940), Charles Rolls (1877), Robert Adam (1728), Frank Williams (1942), Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), and Thomas Simpson (1710).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Martin Lowry ranks 39Before him are Michael Smith (1932), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), William Henry Perkin (1838), William Henry (1774), John Pople (1925), and Smithson Tennant (1761). After him are William Prout (1785), Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Richard J. Roberts (1943), and Fraser Stoddart (1942).