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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

1897 - 1978

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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish has received more than 80,546 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ronald George Wreyford Norrish is the 132nd most popular chemist (up from 212th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 930th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Chemist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Ronald George Wreyford Norrish has had the most page views in the with 7,793 views, followed by Chinese (2,046), and Spanish (1,678). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (222.89%), Swahili (83.16%), and Irish (79.23%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish ranks 132 out of 602. Before him are Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, Ignacy Mościcki, Raymond Davis Jr., Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Lars Onsager. After him are William Howard Stein, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Glenn T. Seaborg, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, and Joachim Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish ranks 38. Before him are Otto Strasser, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Hasso von Manteuffel, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Georg Wittig, and Karl-Otto Koch. After him are Patrick Blackett, Kirill Meretskov, Vlado Chernozemski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Berchtold, and John Franklin Enders. Among people deceased in 1978, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish ranks 28. Before him are Ronnie Peterson, Vincent du Vigneaud, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Hasso von Manteuffel, Jim Jones, and Harold Lasswell. After him are Nazli Sabri, József Bozsik, Herta Oberheuser, Ed Wood, Claude François, and Tamara Karsavina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish ranks 564 out of 8,785. Before him are Philip Miller (1691), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Bill Nighy (1949), Hugh Laurie (1959), James Parkinson (1755), and Christopher Tolkien (1924). After him are Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Beatrix Potter (1866), Walter Raleigh (1554), Archibald Hill (1886), Eadwig (940), and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish ranks 16. Before him are Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Robert Robinson (1886), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), and Archer Martin (1910). After him are John Newlands (1837), James Dewar (1842), George Porter (1920), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Harry Kroto (1939), and Alexander R. Todd (1907).

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