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Thomas Midgley Jr.

1889 - 1944

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Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Midgley Jr. has received more than 1,443,873 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Thomas Midgley Jr. is the 331st most popular chemist (down from 312th in 2019), the 2,798th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,322nd in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 25

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  • 3.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Thomas Midgley Jr. ranks 331 out of 509. Before him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Tapputi, Alexandre Brongniart, Fritz London, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, and Richard Abegg. After him are Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Paul Héroult, Eilhard Mitscherlich, and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Thomas Midgley Jr. ranks 85. Before him are Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Emil Brunner, Mile Budak, Azem Galica, Karel Doorman, and Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi. After him are Maria Bochkareva, Walton Walker, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Ralph Craig, and Willi Münzenberg. Among people deceased in 1944, Thomas Midgley Jr. ranks 128. Before him are Helmut Lent, Józef Beck, Rudolf Schmundt, Hellmuth Stieff, André Abegglen, and Lupe Vélez. After him are Takeo Takagi, Franz Kutschera, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Paul Hazard, Kazu Naoki, and Motobu Chōki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Midgley Jr. ranks 2,798 out of 18,182. Before him are John Savage (1949), Mary Astor (1906), Kristin Davis (1965), Jane Powell (1929), Hyman Minsky (1919), and Ice Cube (1969). After him are Red Buttons (1919), Sandra Dee (1942), Dan Graham (1942), Suzanne Pleshette (1937), Abbie Hoffman (1936), and Gutzon Borglum (1867).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Thomas Midgley Jr. ranks 65. Before him are Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Alice Ball (1892), Richard R. Schrock (1945), and Frances Arnold (1956). After him are William E. Moerner (1953), Thomas Cech (1947), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), and George Washington Carver (1864).

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