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Robert Curl

1933 - 2022

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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Curl has received more than 164,476 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Robert Curl is the 195th most popular chemist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 1,210th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,347th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert Curl ranks 195 out of 602. Before him are Emil Erlenmeyer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Hennig Brand, Roald Hoffmann, Alan MacDiarmid, and Paul L. Modrich. After him are William Standish Knowles, Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, John Vane, Hermann Kolbe, and Osamu Shimomura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Robert Curl ranks 71. Before him are Edmund Phelps, Henryk Górecki, Richard S. Castellano, Willie Nelson, Ali Shariati, and Than Shwe. After him are Sandra Milo, Cees Nooteboom, Danny Aiello, Fouad Mebazaa, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Larry King. Among people deceased in 2022, Robert Curl ranks 59. Before him are Arata Isozaki, Valeri Polyakov, James Lovelock, Hardy Krüger, Stanislav Shushkevich, and Issei Sagawa. After him are Siniša Mihajlović, Ricardo Bofill, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Kirstie Alley, Claes Oldenburg, and Ivana Trump.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Curl ranks 1,210 out of 20,380. Before him are Aileen Wuornos (1956), Ben Stiller (1965), Lenny Kravitz (1964), Loie Fuller (1862), Paul L. Modrich (1946), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967). After him are Kelly McGillis (1957), William Standish Knowles (1917), Robert Knepper (1959), Lita Grey (1908), Tobey Maguire (1975), and Taylor Swift (1989).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert Curl ranks 38. Before him are Richard F. Heck (1931), Stanley Miller (1930), Paul D. Boyer (1918), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), and Paul L. Modrich (1946). After him are William Standish Knowles (1917), John Fenn (1917), Wallace Carothers (1896), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Donald J. Cram (1919), and Stephanie Kwolek (1923).

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