CHEMIST

Rashad Khalifa

1935 - 1990

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Rashad Khalifa (Arabic: رشاد خليفة; November 19, 1935 – January 31, 1990) was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International (USI), an organization that promotes the practice and study of Quranism. Khalifa saw his role as purging the accretions that found their way into Islam via hadith and sunnah, which he claimed were corrupted. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashad Khalifa has received more than 580,000 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Rashad Khalifa is the 376th most popular chemist, the 363rd most popular biography from Egypt and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rashad Khalifa ranks 376 out of 602. Before him are Hugo Erdmann, Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, and Koichi Tanaka. After him are Hermann von Fehling, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Louis Le Chatelier, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Jacques Bergier, and Friedrich Stromeyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Rashad Khalifa ranks 164. Before him are M. Emmet Walsh, David Lodge, Charles Grodin, Giovanni Lajolo, Rusty Schweickart, and Gerd Albrecht. After him are Ken Kercheval, Dudley Moore, Denise Perrier, Peter Schreier, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Elga Andersen. Among people deceased in 1990, Rashad Khalifa ranks 104. Before him are Gerald Bull, Hans Freudenthal, Paul Tortelier, Stefano Casiraghi, Berta Karlik, and Xavier Cugat. After him are Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Wolfgang Schmieder, Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Matvey Blanter, and Irene Dunne.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Rashad Khalifa ranks 363 out of 642. Before him are Dionysius Periegetes (100), Lysandra (-300), Apion (-30), Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), An-Nasir Hasan (1334), and Cleomenes of Naucratis (-400). After him are Hazem El Beblawi (1936), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), Khalid al-Islambouli (1955), Beketaten (-1400), Mohamed Salah (1992), and Tiberius Julius Alexander (100).

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Among CHEMISTS In Egypt

Among chemists born in Egypt, Rashad Khalifa ranks 3. Before him are Dorothy Hodgkin (1910), and Ahmed Zewail (1946).

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