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Peter Atkins

1940 - Today

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Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Atkins has received more than 323,671 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Peter Atkins is the 423rd most popular chemist (down from 390th in 2019), the 2,509th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Atkins ranks 423 out of 602. Before him are John Tukey, Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Kathleen Lonsdale, and Michael Grätzel. After him are Eric Betzig, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Theodor Curtius, Nikolay Beketov, Roy J. Plunkett, and Morris Travers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Peter Atkins ranks 254. Before him are Peter C. Doherty, Michel Micombero, Andrey Piontkovsky, Margit Carstensen, Valie Export, and José Nápoles. After him are Matthias Habich, Tommy Lawrence, Robby Müller, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Danilo Astori, and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Atkins ranks 2,509 out of 8,785. Before him are James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (1286), Ralph Abercromby (1734), Joanne Whalley (1961), W. Ross Ashby (1903), Æthelheard of Wessex (750), and Carl Cox (1962). After him are Guy Burgess (1911), Andrew Lang (1844), Tony Abbott (1957), John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845), William Cowper (1731), and Matt Smith (1982).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Peter Atkins ranks 56. Before him are Thomas Andrews (1813), Luke Howard (1772), John William Draper (1811), Arthur Aikin (1773), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), and John Walker (1781). After him are Morris Travers (1872), William Gregor (1761), William Nicholson (1753), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Charles Blagden (1748), and David MacMillan (1968).

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