CHEMIST

Wallace Smith Broecker

1931 - 2019

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Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker (November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019) was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University. He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wallace Smith Broecker has received more than 162,847 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wallace Smith Broecker is the 534th most popular chemist (down from 529th in 2019), the 8,667th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,523rd in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 534 out of 602. Before him are Leslie Orgel, Sabir Yunusov, Peter Armbruster, Neil Bartlett, Robert Jarvik, and John Mayow. After him are Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Darleane C. Hoffman, Nikodem Caro, Carl Jacob Löwig, and Ida Freund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 474. Before him are Sergio Obeso Rivera, Igor Maslennikov, Peter Armbruster, Giuliana Minuzzo, Heinz Fütterer, and Karl-Friedrich Haas. After him are Ferry Graf, Gustav-Adolf Schur, Anthony Newley, Jackie McLean, Giovanni Battista Rabino, and Ann Rule. Among people deceased in 2019, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 423. Before him are Frank Robinson, Therese Zenz, Sergio Obeso Rivera, Nikolai Gorbachev, Heinz Fütterer, and Bobby Joe Long. After him are Siegmar Wätzlich, Roky Erickson, Andre Matos, Cameron Boyce, Koldo Aguirre, and Ken Matthews.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 8,667 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Patinkin (1922), Steve Franken (1932), Walt Ader (1913), Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916), Alison Lurie (1926), and Kevin Dillon (1965). After him are Ray Anthony (1922), Jack Wagner (1959), Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Donald Regan (1918), and Common (1972).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 91. Before him are Maclyn McCarty (1911), Isabella Karle (1921), Michael Behe (1952), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Karen Wetterhahn (1948), and Robert Jarvik (1946). After him are Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Helen Murray Free (1923), Bruce Alberts (1938), Florence B. Seibert (1897), Mildred Cohn (1913), and Mary L. Good (1931).

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