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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 245,987 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Richard Smalley is the 261st most popular chemist (up from 270th in 2019), the 1,626th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,858th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Smalley ranks 261 out of 602. Before him are Kikunae Ikeda, Arieh Warshel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Emil Abderhalden, Michael Smith, and Feodor Lynen. After him are Edward W. Morley, Kaoru Ishikawa, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Martin Karplus, Locusta, and Joachim Sauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard Smalley ranks 114. Before him are Vint Cerf, Holland Taylor, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Chevy Chase, Chris Amon, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. After him are Leonardo Sandri, Michael Palin, Conchata Ferrell, René Préval, John Nettles, and Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório. Among people deceased in 2005, Richard Smalley ranks 57. Before him are Robert Wise, Akira Yoshizawa, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Robert Sheckley, Peter Benenson, and Hunter S. Thompson. After him are Carlo Maria Giulini, Arman, Aenne Burda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Moog, and John Garang.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Smalley ranks 1,626 out of 20,380. Before him are John C. Mather (1946), Emmett Till (1941), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Kirk Hammett (1962), Mariah Carey (1969), and Helen Hayes (1900). After him are John Sturges (1910), George C. Scott (1927), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), Harvey Milk (1930), Luke Perry (1966), and Maria Shriver (1955).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Richard Smalley ranks 55. Before him are Elias James Corey (1928), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Joseph L. Goldstein (1940), Walter Gilbert (1932), and Dudley R. Herschbach (1932). After him are Edward W. Morley (1838), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Martin Rodbell (1925), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), and Richard R. Schrock (1945).

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