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Richard Smalley

1943 - 2005

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Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Smalley has received more than 230,799 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Richard Smalley is the 270th most popular chemist (up from 297th in 2019), the 1,859th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,137th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Smalley ranks 270 out of 509Before him are Martin Rodbell, Luis Federico Leloir, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Vladimir Markovnikov, Hideki Shirakawa, and Alan MacDiarmid. After him are Kenichi Fukui, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Edmond H. Fischer, Fraser Stoddart, Thomas A. Steitz, and Alexander Shulgin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard Smalley ranks 118Before him are Michael Spence, Ri Chun-hee, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Tobe Hooper, and Otoya Yamaguchi. After him are René Préval, Jack Bruce, Mohammed Badie, Griselda Blanco, Oskar Lafontaine, and Robert Lefkowitz. Among people deceased in 2005, Richard Smalley ranks 65Before him are Victoria de los Ángeles, Dana Elcar, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Will Eisner, Robert Moog, and Carlo Maria Giulini. After him are Ba Jin, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, Aenne Burda, Jef Raskin, and Narriman Sadek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Smalley ranks 1,859 out of 18,182Before him are Philip José Farmer (1918), Kalākaua (1836), Ry Cooder (1947), Solomon Burke (1936), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), and Vic Morrow (1929). After him are Henry Heimlich (1920), Clark L. Hull (1884), Michael Biehn (1956), Gene Vincent (1935), Charles W. Morris (1903), and John Densmore (1944).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Richard Smalley ranks 56Before him are Edward W. Morley (1838), Donald J. Cram (1919), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Martin Rodbell (1925). After him are Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Alexander Shulgin (1925), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), and Alice Ball (1892).