Chemist

Wallace Carothers

1896 - 1937

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His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Wallace Carothers is the 201st most popular chemist (up from 210th in 2024), the 1,069th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,310th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Chemist.

Wallace Carothers is most famous for inventing nylon.

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Among Chemists

Among chemists, Wallace Carothers ranks 201 out of 602Before him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Henry Taube, Paul L. Modrich, Clara Immerwahr, Arthur Kornberg, and Herbert C. Brown. After him are Donald J. Cram, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Karl Barry Sharpless.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Wallace Carothers ranks 38Before him are Ernst Udet, Erich Koch, Sandro Pertini, Léon Theremin, Oswald Mosley, and Célestin Freinet. After him are Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, John Dos Passos, Italo Balbo, Nobusuke Kishi, and Nikolay Semyonov. Among people deceased in 1937, Wallace Carothers ranks 26Before him are Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Andrew Mellon, Karol Szymanowski, Jean Harlow, and Charles-Marie Widor. After him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Rudolf Otto, Keke Geladze, Frank B. Kellogg, Ramsay MacDonald, and Albert Roussel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Carothers ranks 1,069 out of NaNBefore him are H. L. Mencken (1880), Rick Rubin (1963), Stanley Tucci (1960), Drew Weissman (1959), Ali MacGraw (1939), and Alan Arkin (1934). After him are Victor Fleming (1889), John Browning (1855), Kamehameha I (1758), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Suzi Quatro (1950), and Benjamin Thompson (1753).

Among Chemists In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wallace Carothers ranks 48Before him are Robert Curl (1933), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), Paul L. Modrich (1946), and Arthur Kornberg (1918). After him are Donald J. Cram (1919), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Paul Lauterbur (1929), and Stanley Miller (1930).

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