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Robert H. Grubbs

1942 - 2021

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Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert H. Grubbs has received more than 271,744 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Robert H. Grubbs is the 279th most popular chemist (down from 200th in 2019), the 1,764th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,340th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 279 out of 602. Before him are Richard Abegg, William Henry Perkin, Martin Rodbell, William Henry, Kamala Sohonie, and Akira Yoshino. After him are Georg Brandt, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Henry Taube, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Thomas Midgley Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 133. Before him are Fred Ward, Roger Ebert, Mitch McConnell, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Evaristo Carvalho, and Geneviève Bujold. After him are Muslim Magomayev, Vasily Alekseyev, Christopher A. Sims, Silvia Federici, Gottfried John, and Carole King. Among people deceased in 2021, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 89. Before him are Dušan Ivković, Tanya Roberts, Dean Stockwell, Vicente Fernández, Helen McCrory, and Kenneth Kaunda. After him are Libuše Šafránková, Djivan Gasparyan, Lars Vilks, Leopoldo Luque, Yaphet Kotto, and Franco Battiato.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 1,764 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel Nathans (1928), Virginia Henderson (1897), Fats Domino (1928), Bob Newhart (1929), Peter Coyote (1941), and Brion James (1945). After him are Henry Steel Olcott (1832), Madeleine Stowe (1958), June Carter Cash (1929), Coolio (1963), George Stigler (1911), and Paul Michael Glaser (1943).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 59. Before him are Walter Gilbert (1932), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Richard Smalley (1943), Edward W. Morley (1838), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), and Martin Rodbell (1925). After him are Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Thomas Cech (1947), Alexander Shulgin (1925), and Alice Ball (1892).

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