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Raymond Davis Jr.

1914 - 2006

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Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Davis Jr. has received more than 151,459 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Raymond Davis Jr. is the 129th most popular chemist (up from 186th in 2019), the 801st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,277th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Chemist.

Raymond Davis Jr. is most famous for the Davis Incident, in which he shot two men in Lahore, Pakistan, and was imprisoned for two years before being released in 2011.

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  • 63.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 129 out of 602. Before him are Avram Hershko, Johan Gadolin, Clara Immerwahr, Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Ignacy Mościcki. After him are Wendell Meredith Stanley, Lars Onsager, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, William Howard Stein, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 27. Before him are Lída Baarová, Joe Louis, Aribert Heim, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Karl Carstens, and Joe DiMaggio. After him are Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Jonas Salk, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Philippe Ariès, Desmond Llewelyn, and Etty Hillesum. Among people deceased in 2006, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 33. Before him are Muriel Spark, Joseph Barbera, Jack Palance, Clay Regazzoni, Robert Altman, and Lennart Meri. After him are Alida Valli, Clifford Geertz, Alexander Litvinenko, Markus Wolf, Bülent Ecevit, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 801 out of 20,380. Before him are John Goodman (1952), William Saroyan (1908), Leo Frank (1884), Frances McDormand (1957), Harold Lasswell (1902), and James Cronin (1931). After him are Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Ted Kennedy (1932), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Pat Morita (1932), Renée Zellweger (1969), and Davy Crockett (1786).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Raymond Davis Jr. ranks 18. Before him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Stanford Moore (1913), Paul Berg (1926), Harold Urey (1893), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), and Robert Burns Woodward (1917). After him are Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), William Howard Stein (1911), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Willard Libby (1908), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), and Arthur Kornberg (1918).

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