1931 - 2019
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 152,756 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wallace Smith Broecker is the 533rd most popular chemist, the 10,545th most popular biography from United States and the 100th most popular American Chemist.
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Among chemists, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 533 out of 509. Before him are Mary L. Good, Gilbert Stork, Darleane C. Hoffman, John George Children, Anna J. Harrison, and Karen Wetterhahn. After him are Charles M. Lieber, Ida Freund, Arthur Fry, Richard Zare, Susan Solomon, and Martyn Poliakoff.
1931 - 2019
HPI: 41.62
Rank: 527
1921 - 2017
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 528
1926 - Present
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 529
1777 - 1852
HPI: 41.15
Rank: 530
1912 - 1998
HPI: 40.95
Rank: 531
1948 - 1997
HPI: 40.91
Rank: 532
1931 - 2019
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 533
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.46
Rank: 534
1863 - 1914
HPI: 40.24
Rank: 535
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 536
1939 - Present
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 537
1956 - Present
HPI: 39.46
Rank: 538
1947 - Present
HPI: 39.35
Rank: 539
Among people born in 1931, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 477. Before him are Thane Baker, Marisa Del Frate, Andrija Fuderer, John Kerr, Ernie Banks, and Marjorie Jackson-Nelson. After him are Maxine Singer, Anne Heywood, Bruce Halford, Tadeusz Rut, Gianuario Carta, and Bruce C. Murray. Among people deceased in 2019, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 464. Before him are Akitsugu Konno, Brigitte Kronauer, Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Ken Matthews, Ted Lindsay, and Marie Senghor Basse. After him are Yasuhiro Takemoto, Zaza Urushadze, Jerry Herman, Olavi Mannonen, Žarko Varajić, and Andrea Pollack.
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.90
Rank: 471
1931 - 2015
HPI: 40.85
Rank: 472
1931 - 2011
HPI: 40.83
Rank: 473
1931 - 2013
HPI: 40.73
Rank: 474
1931 - 2015
HPI: 40.65
Rank: 475
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 476
1931 - 2019
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 477
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 478
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 479
1931 - 2001
HPI: 40.57
Rank: 480
1931 - 2002
HPI: 40.55
Rank: 481
1931 - 2017
HPI: 40.54
Rank: 482
1931 - 2013
HPI: 40.54
Rank: 483
1944 - 2019
HPI: 40.85
Rank: 458
1940 - 2019
HPI: 40.81
Rank: 459
1955 - 2019
HPI: 40.78
Rank: 460
1934 - 2019
HPI: 40.70
Rank: 461
1925 - 2019
HPI: 40.66
Rank: 462
1930 - 2019
HPI: 40.66
Rank: 463
1931 - 2019
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 464
1972 - 2019
HPI: 40.57
Rank: 465
1965 - 2019
HPI: 40.45
Rank: 466
1931 - 2019
HPI: 40.43
Rank: 467
1930 - 2019
HPI: 40.27
Rank: 468
1951 - 2019
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 469
1961 - 2019
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 470
Among people born in United States, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 10,545 out of 18,182. Before him are Lindsey Morgan (1990), Nicholas Katzenbach (1922), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), Tom Forman (1893), Meredith Monroe (1969), and Tom Dowd (1925). After him are Simon Cameron (1799), Ed Boon (1964), Dick Butkus (1942), Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817), Maxine Singer (1931), and Todd Solondz (1959).
1990 - Present
HPI: 40.60
Rank: 10,539
1922 - 2012
HPI: 40.60
Rank: 10,540
1950 - Present
HPI: 40.60
Rank: 10,541
1893 - 1926
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,542
1969 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,543
1925 - 2002
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,544
1931 - 2019
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,545
1799 - 1889
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,546
1964 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,547
1942 - 2023
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,548
1817 - 1885
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,549
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10,550
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.58
Rank: 10,551
Among chemists born in United States, Wallace Smith Broecker ranks 100. Before him are F. Albert Cotton (1930), Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), Mary L. Good (1931), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Anna J. Harrison (1912), and Karen Wetterhahn (1948). After him are Charles M. Lieber (1959), Arthur Fry (1931), Richard Zare (1939), Susan Solomon (1956), Harry B. Gray (1935), and Donald Howard Menzel (1901).
1930 - 2007
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 94
1925 - 1983
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 95
1931 - 2019
HPI: 41.62
Rank: 96
1926 - Present
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 97
1912 - 1998
HPI: 40.95
Rank: 98
1948 - 1997
HPI: 40.91
Rank: 99
1931 - 2019
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 100
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.46
Rank: 101
1931 - Present
HPI: 40.23
Rank: 102
1939 - Present
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 103
1956 - Present
HPI: 39.46
Rank: 104
1935 - Present
HPI: 39.21
Rank: 105
1901 - 1976
HPI: 38.78
Rank: 106